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:

Differential Threshold

is the smallest detectable difference between two sensory stimuli, indicating the minimum change needed for detection.

Frequency

The rate at which something occurs over a particular period or in a given sample.

Ernst Weber

A 19th-century German psychologist and one of the founders of experimental psychology, known for his work in the field of psychophysics, particularly Weber's Law concerning human perception.

Psychophysicist

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