Assuming a person's behavior is based on certain motives is called primacy-recency stereotyping attribution implicit personality theory self-fulfilling prophecy

The answer is the "attribution"

Explanation:

This concept refers to a method of assuming/inferring the behavior of someone or the causes of events.  

There are three types of attribution:

Interpersonal Attribution: For example, when telling an anecdote the person saying is most likely to state itself in the best position of the story.Predictive Attribution: Is the tendency we have to assume things that will make us have future predictions of a situation.Explanatory Attribution: It talks about how the fact to attribute something helps us make sense of the world.

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