Alphonse Failed His Geology Midterm

question 86

Multiple Choice

Alphonse failed his geology midterm.According to Weiner's attributional model,if Alphonse makes an external-unstable attribution for his failure,what is he most likely to say

• A) "I just can't seem to catch on in my geology classes, and I don't think I'll ever learn all those terms." 
• B) "That professor has impossible exams; if I retake the class with a different professor, I'll probably do much better." 
• C) "It was just bad luck that most of the exam was on the one chapter I didn't study." 
• D) "I was really tired during the exam because I had to work the late shift the night before the exam."

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