Randa just failed her history exam because she neglected to study. Afterwards, she attributes her failure to the fact that her boyfriend kept her up too late the night before when he refused to turn down the stereo so that she could sleep. The next day she aces her biology test. Randa attributes her success on it to her own intelligence. Randa appears to be engaging in which attributional bias??
a. ?fundamental attribution error
b. ?self-serving bias
c. ?actor-observer effect
d. ?cognitive dissonance
ANSWER:
b
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