Question

Kayla, an honor student, received a C+ on her report on Pearl Harbor. She says that the teacher doesn’t like her because she is an atheist and her teacher is very religious woman. She believes that she received a low grade because of this dislike. Kayla is making ________________ about the cause of her low paper grade.

a. An external attribution
b. An internal attribution
c. A fictional finalism
d. A paranoid delusion

Answer 1

Answer: A

Explanation: Kayla is making an external attribution in which she blames the teacher for her low qualification. This attribution is based on the differences between Kayla's atheism that contradicts her teacher's beliefs.

Sometimes we attribute things to an external cause just because it is easier for us to process whatever feeling causes. If we accept that we are to blame for it, we are taking responsability and sometimes hurts our ego.