Marcus Helps Juanita Pick Up Some Books She Dropped

question 71

Multiple Choice

Marcus helps Juanita pick up some books she dropped. You think that Marcus must have been in a good mood. According to attribution theory, your attribution is an ________ one.

• A) external, stable
• B) external, unstable
• C) internal, stable
• D) internal, unstable

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Definitions:

Extinction

In psychology, the diminishing of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is withheld or the stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Generalization

The process of applying the knowledge or response acquired from specific stimuli to similar stimuli.

Spontaneous Recovery

The return of a response that had been previously diminished, following an interval where the conditioned stimulus was not presented.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired together; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.