hard · MCAT
A medical student performs poorly on an exam and attributes the failure to the 'unfairly difficult questions' and 'noisy testing environment.' However, when their classmate fails, the student assumes the classmate 'didn't study hard enough.'
This student's reasoning demonstrates which social psychological phenomenon?
- Actor-observer bias
- Self-serving bias
- Confirmation bias
- Fundamental attribution error
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