Ardal earned 90 percent on the first exam but only earned 65 percent on the second exam. After the first exam, he bragged about how hard he had studied, but after the second exam, he blamed the teacher for doing a bad job of explaining the material. Ardal is demonstrating the:

A. self-serving bias.
B. actor/observer bias.
C. ultimate attribution error.
D. fundamental attribution error.


Answer: A

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