Instructions: Identify the Following Terms

question 86

Short Answer

Instructions: Identify the following terms.
"might makes right"

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Definitions:

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.

Internal Locus

An individual's belief that they can control their life events and outcomes, as opposed to external forces having that control.

External Locus

The belief that external forces or situations beyond one's own control dictate the outcomes of one's actions.