The Tendency to Attribute One's Successes to Internal Causes and One's

question 14

Multiple Choice

The tendency to attribute one's successes to internal causes and one's failures to external causes is called _____.

• A)the fundamental attribution error
• B)self-serving bias
• C)the discounting principle
• D)integrative approach

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Definitions:

Bell Shaped Distribution

A probability distribution that forms a symmetric bell-shaped curve, commonly associated with the normal distribution.

Coefficient of Variation

A uniform metric showing the spread of a probability or frequency distribution as a percentage relative to the average.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a set of data points from their mean.

Variance

A measure of how much the values in a dataset vary or deviate from the mean, technically the average of the squared differences from the Mean.