medium · MCAT Psychological, Social & Biological Foundations of Behavior
A hospital administrator attributes a nurse's medication error to 'clumsiness and lack of focus' (dispositional factors), while the nurse points to the 'understaffing and poor labeling on the medicine cart' (situational factors).
The administrator's bias is an example of:
- The fundamental attribution error
- The actor-observer bias
- Cognitive dissonance
- Confirmation bias
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