When We Attribute Our Success to Ability and Effort and Our

question 30

Multiple Choice

When we attribute our success to ability and effort and our failures to bad luck or lack of effort, this is an example of

• A) Self-serving attribution
• B) Learned helplessness
• C) Culture clash
• D) Illusionary correlation

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Definitions:

Industrial Revolution

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