Brenda Has Not Turned in Her Homework for Over a Week

Brenda has not turned in her homework for over a week and her teacher assumes that she is lazy and unmotivated. It never occurs to Brenda's teacher that she is under a lot of stress and dealing with difficult life circumstances. The teacher's explanation for Brenda's behaviour can be considered an example of:

A) the correspondence bias.
B) the planning fallacy.
C) the attributional error effect.
D) the false consensus effect.

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