Question

Mark has formed an impression of Juan by watching how he acts toward others during basketball practice and at school. Mark has formed a(n) _____ attribution in thinking of Juan as being a team player and nice to others, regardless of the situation.

observational
situational
dispositional
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Answer 1

Mark has formed a dispositional attribution

Step-by-step explanation:

A dispositional attribution consists in assigning the outcome of an event to internal personality factors.

In this example, Mark has observed that Juan is a good team leader in basketball practice. Instead of thinking that Juan is a good leader because the game requires him to act in such a way (this would be an example of a situational attribution), he considers that Juan is himself a good leader, because he has the personality characteristics of one, regarless of the situation in which he might be involved.