Explain Each of the Following Situations in Terms of Attribution

question 73

Essay

Explain each of the following situations in terms of attribution theory.
a.After a history of school failures, Marcus eventually stops trying to do well.
b.A fifth-grade teacher gives her class a difficult mathematics test, and many of her students fail it.She tells her class that she will give them a different test on the same material tomorrow.Many of the boys in the class say they will go home and study again.Some of the girls say that they already studied once, and it did not do much good, so why bother?
c.Samantha's mother helps her study for an addition test on Tuesday and a subtraction test on Thursday.Samantha passes the Tuesday test and is quite proud of herself.She fails the Thursday test and blames her mother for not helping her enough.

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