Question

As Nina and Erin were eating lunch in the Central High School student cafeteria, they were discussing the news coverage about the girls' athletic coach being arrested for selling steroids to student athletes. "I think the guy just did it because they don't pay teachers enough money," Nina suggested. "I bet the guy had some other kind of drug addiction he was trying to pay for," Erin countered. Nina and Erin's ideas about the cause of the coach's drug-selling behavior are examples of:

Answer 1

Answer: Attribution.

Explanation:

Attribution is the act whereby we tend to  infer the reasons of events or why individuals or ourselves behave the way we or they do.

Here, Nina and Erin tried to infer the reasons why the girls athletic  coach sold steroids to athletes, while Erin  inferred, that the guy was into drugs addition, Nina conclude his action to poor wages received by teachers, their ideas were based on Attribution.