When We Attribute Someone's Behaviour to a Personal Trait, Motive

question 250

Multiple Choice

When we attribute someone's behaviour to a personal trait, motive, or attitude, we are making

• A) an external attribution.
• B) a situational attribution.
• C) a dispositional attribution.
• D) an inaccurate attribution.

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Definitions:

Causal Effects

The relationship or impact that one variable has in directly changing the value or outcome of another variable.

Policy

A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual.

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect where one event directly results in another.

Correlated

Two variables are correlated if their values tend to move together.