Alex and Diego have been dating for several weeks Alex is used to seeing Diego as a cheerful upbeat person One day she encounters Diego at school and he seems withdrawn Alex immediately thinks that she must have done something to cause his mood, however, Diego had just found out he did not make the baseball team. What is the process at work in Alex's thinking?

A. Antidepressants are used to treat depression, not anxiety.

B. Mood stabilizers are used for conditions like bipolar disorder, not for managing anxiety.

C. Antipsychotic drugs are used to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, not primarily for anxiety.

D. Benzodiazepines are a class of antianxiety drugs used to treat anxiety disorders by acting on the central nervous system to induce calmness.

A. Self-serving bias refers to the tendency to attribute personal successes to internal factors and failures to external factors, which does not apply to the teacher's judgment in this scenario.

B. Snap judgment refers to making a quick, often inaccurate, judgment about someone without considering all relevant information, but it is not specifically related to attributing behavior to internal traits.

C. The fundamental attribution error occurs when someone attributes another person's behavior to their internal characteristics (such as laziness) rather than considering external factors (such as traffic or family issues) that may have contributed to the behavior.

D. External attribution involves explaining behavior based on external factors, which would not align with the teacher's assumption that the student is lazy.