With the Self-Serving Bias, We Tend to Make _____ Attributions

question 2

Multiple Choice

With the self-serving bias, we tend to make _____ attributions for our failures and _____ for our successes.

• A) dispositional; dispositional
• B) dispositional; situational
• C) situational; dispositional
• D) situational; situational

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Definitions:

James-Lange Theory

A psychological theory suggesting that emotions result from people's interpretations of bodily reactions to external events.

Cannon-Bard Theory

The proposition that emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously.

Polygraph

An instrument that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject answers questions, used to infer truths or lies.

Physiological Responses

Automatic reactions of the body to a stimulus, involving biological or bodily systems and processes, such as heart rate and hormone release.