A student arrives late to class and is noisy in sitting down and getting out his books. You assume that he is irresponsible and rude. You have assigned __________ to his behavior.

A. an internal attribution
B. an external attribution
C. a self-serving bias
D. a fundamental attribution error


Answer: A

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genes. parental practices. culture. adult experiences.

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Discuss at least FOUR criticisms of the learning theory of language development

What will be an ideal response?

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A. Greg, because older children are more likely than younger children to imitate behavior B. Ben, because younger children are more likely than older children to imitate behavior C. Greg, because passive attention is best for learning information one plans to imitate D. Ben, because he was paying more attention and thus likely to retain more of the information

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