Crediting our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors "I aced the test" (smart!) vs "I failed because the teacher was unfair."

Comparing ourselves only to people who are doing worse than we are

Evaluating our outcomes by averaging credit equally between self and situation

Crediting our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors

Crediting our successes to external factors and our failures to internal factors

Attribution Theory and Person Perception

AP Psychology· difficulty 3/5

Self-serving bias is

A
$Comparing ourselves only to people who are doing worse than we are$
B
$Evaluating our outcomes by averaging credit equally between self and situation$
C
$Crediting our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors$
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D
$Crediting our successes to external factors and our failures to internal factors$

Explanation

"I aced the test" (smart!) vs "I failed because the teacher was unfair."

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