When an Individual Has a Tendency to Attribute Her Success

question 48

Multiple Choice

When an individual has a tendency to attribute her success to personal factors and her failure to situational factors, the individual is demonstrating

• A) the fundamental attribution bias.
• B) the self-effacing bias.
• C) the self-serving bias.
• D) defensive attribution.

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Definitions:

Axis

A central line around which other things rotate or are symmetrically arranged; in anatomy, it refers to the second cervical vertebra.

Extension

An increase in the angle between bones at a joint or the straightening of a limb.

Straightening Movement

refers to the motion aimed at making something linear or rectifying its alignment.

Adduction

To draw together toward the midline.