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Monica sees Laurena, who is normally shy, give a speech in class with confidence. Monica therefore attributes Laurena's behavior to the course requirement. Monica's explanation for Laurena's behavior is an example of

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A situational attribution

Step-by-step explanation:

A situational attribution is the tendency of assigning the cause or responsibility of a certain behavior or action to outside forces rather than international characteristic and we often explain our new actions and behavior using the environmental or situational features, meaning something that is beyond our control.

Every form of explanation we come up with that focuses on the environment in order to explain behavior can also be referred as situational attributes.

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