Dr. Drew is doing an experiment in which participants listen to a persuasive speech. They are either told the speaker freely chose to give as speech of their own making or the speaker was given a script and told to read it without the option to choose. If Dr. Drew uses the fundamental attribution error as a theoretical framework, what will their hypothesis be? A Participants will indicate that the speech reflects the speaker's true attitude regardless of experimental condition. B Participants will indicate that the speech reflects the speaker's true attitude only when told the speaker freely chose what to say. C Participants will indicate that the freedom or not to choose the speech affected the speaker's ability to persuade them. D Participants will indicate that the speech did not reflect the speaker's true attitude regardless of experimental condition.

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Dr. Drew is doing an experiment in which participants listen to a persuasive speech. They are either told the speaker freely chose to give as speech of their own making or the speaker was given a script and told to read it without the option to choose. If Dr. Drew uses the fundamental attribution error as a theoretical framework, what will their hypothesis be? A Participants will indicate that the speech reflects the speaker's true attitude regardless of experimental condition. B Participants will indicate that the speech reflects the speaker's true attitude only when told the speaker freely chose what to say. C Participants will indicate that the freedom or not to choose the speech affected the speaker's ability to persuade them. D Participants will indicate that the speech did not reflect the speaker's true attitude regardless of experimental condition.

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The answer is **A**.Here's why:The fundamental attribution error describes our tendency to overemphasize dispositional or personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In this experiment, the situational factor is whether the speaker chose the speech topic or was assigned it. If Dr. Drew's hypothesis is based on the fundamental attribution error, they would predict that participants will attribute the speech's content to the speaker's internal attitudes (a dispositional attribution) *even when* they know the speaker was assigned the topic (a clear situational constraint). Therefore, the experimental condition (choice vs. no choice) is not expected to significantly impact participants' judgments of the speaker's true attitude.

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