17: One of Nancy's professors requires her to write an essay favoring
  additional tuition increases for the spring.  Despite his education and
  the fact the he required her to write the essay, research on the
  fundamental attribution error suggests that the professor is likely to
  infer

   C: that Nancy's attitude cannot be inferred from the essay on account
    of the conditions under which it was written

    Incorrect.
Research on the fundamental attribution error has shown, that even when people have reason to believe that the causes for a behavior are situational, they still overestimate dispositional factors.  Since choice C calls for the professor to give a lot of credence to the situation that was at hand, it contradicts research on the fundamental attribution error.  The professor would probably believe that Nancy actually believed what she wrote.
 


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