Peter is waiting to meet his new doctor. A person comes into the waiting room dressed in jeans and an informal shirt. There is another person who comes in who has a lab coat on. The fact that Peter assumes his doctor is the one in the lab coat, even though he is wrong, is an example of the:
A. Self-fulfilling prophecy
B. Social cognition effect
C. Fundamental attribution error
D. Representativeness heuristic.