When we specifically attribute good aspects about ourselves to dispositional factors, and bad things to the environment, we are demonstrating:
A) fundamental attribution error.
B) self-serving bias.
C) reactance.
D) wrongful attribution.
E) self-fulfilling prophecy.

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This demonstrates the self-serving bias, where we tend to attribute positive outcomes to internal factors (dispositional) and negative outcomes to external factors (environmental). This is a common cognitive bias that helps us protect our self-esteem and maintain a positive self-image. The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional factors when explaining others' behavior, reactance is a response to perceived threats to our freedom, wrongful attribution is not a recognized concept in social psychology, and self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the process by which our beliefs about a person or situation lead us to behave in ways that confirm those beliefs.

When We Specifically Attribute Good Aspects About Ourselves to Dispositional