You have just received your results on an exam. Although you thought that you were prepared, you didn't do very well. You can't recall exactly what the questions asked but clearly remember how much work you put in preparing for it. You decide that the reason you performed poorly must have been because the exam questions were unfair in some way. What kind of process could this be an example of?
A)a personal attribution
B)a situational attribution
C)an internal attribution
D)means-end analysis
E)linguistic relativity

Question

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The student is attributing their poor performance to an external factor (the exam questions being unfair) rather than an internal factor (their own lack of preparation). This is an example of a situational attribution.

You Have Just Received Your Results on an Exam