Explain Each of the Following Situations Using What You Have

question 21

Essay

Explain each of the following situations using what you have learned about attributions.
a. After a history of school failures, Marcus eventually stops trying to do well.
b. A fifth-grade teacher gives her class a difficult mathematics test, and many of her students fail it. She tells her class that she will give them a different test over the same material tomorrow. Many of the boys in the class say they will go home and study again. Some of the girls say that they already studied once, and it didn't do much good, so why bother?
c. Samantha's mother helps her study for an addition test on Tuesday and a subtraction test on Thursday. Samantha passes the Tuesday test and is quite proud of herself. She fails the Thursday test and blames her mother for not helping her enough.

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Definitions:

Variable Costs

Costs that change in proportion with the level of output or activity.

Fixed Costs

Costs that do not change with an increase or decrease in the amount of goods or services produced or sold.

Corporate Tax Rate

The percentage of a company's taxable income that it pays to federal, state, or local tax authorities.

Demand Shock

An event that affects the demand for goods and services in the economy.