You are walking in a parking lot full of small puddles of water. A car drives through one near you and splashes you with water. You attribute the driver’s behavior to his own carelessness and lack of civility. This is called ____.

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Answer: the Fundamental Attribution Of Error

Explanation: In Social Psychology, fundamental attribution error, which is also known as Correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to lay less emphasize on situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while laying more emphasizes on their dispositional and personality-based explanations for their behavior. That is to say people blaming someone's behavior on his personality rather than on the situations that met have led to the person behaving in that way. From the question, the parking lot was full of puddles, hence there was no way anyone can drive through without splashing water around. Now instead of blaming the driver's behaviour on what actually caused the splashing of water (water puddles everywhere) you are saying he is careless and not civil.