Question

if you failed to get hired for a job, and you think it was because the person interviewing you was too distracted by his phone during the interview,
then you would be making an internal/dispositional attribution.
then you would be making an external/situational attribution.
then you would be making a decision based on groupthink.
then you would be making the fundamental attribution error.

Explanation:

1. Recall attribution concepts: Internal/dispositional attribution attributes outcomes to personal traits, external/situational to environmental factors.
2. Analyze the scenario: Blaming the interviewer’s phone distraction (a situational factor, not the interviewer’s personal traits or one’s own traits) is external/situational attribution.
3. Eliminate other options: Groupthink involves group decision - making biases, fundamental attribution error is overemphasizing internal factors for others’ behavior, and internal attribution would be blaming oneself or the interviewer’s personal traits (not the situation).

Answer:

B. then you would be making an external/situational attribution.