Five People Will Get a Scholarship Today

Multiple Choice

Five people will get a scholarship today. Four good and one average person interviewed in the morning. Four bad and one average person interviewed in the afternoon. The four good people in the morning got the scholarship and because the average person in the afternoon looked so good compared to the bad people in the afternoon,that person got the scholarship in spite of being identical to the average person in the morning. What performance appraisal error is demonstrated here?

A) Attribution error
B) Primacy error
C) Proximity error
D) Similarity error
E) Contrast error