Dr. townsend is a professor at frost university. she has noticed that the freshmen who take this course consistently perform poorly overall in comparison to the other students. she attributes this to the fact that they are still young and immature. in making this assumption, dr. townsend may be:

making a fundamental attribution error

Explanation:

Fundamental attribution error: In psychology, the term fundamental attribution error is defined as an individual's propensity of explaining the other person's behavior as a result of internal factors including disposition or personality and underestimating the external factors influences including situational influences that can have an impact on other person's behavior.

In the question above, Dr Townsend may be making a fundamental attribution error.

Making fundamental attribution error

Explanation:

Fundamental attribution error is defined as error in which consideration is based on personal characteristic and feature and situational factors are avoided wile making judgement on any individuals behavior.

According to the situation mentioned in question, Dr. Townsend is emphasizing the personal traits of immaturity and youth over the poor performance of students taking the course as the situational state. Thus, this is describing tat Dr.Townsend is making fundamental attribution error wile judging the students.    

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