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A student receives a bad grade on an exam. When they explain their own performance, they cite the loud noise in the testing room. When they see a classmate fail, they assume the classmate is 'just lazy'.
This asymmetry in attribution is best described as:
- The self-serving bias
- Confirmation bias
- The fundamental attribution error
- The actor-observer bias
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