While watching jeopardy, your roommate says, "alex trebek knows all the answers. he must be a genius." you tell your roommate she probably would not have said that if she had attended class the day the instructor discussed the topic of

Fundamental Attribution Errors.

Fundamental attribution errors are the human tendency to explain another's behavior based on internal factors (personality for example) which leads them to underestimate external factors that are not shown.

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