The process of making inferences about the causes of one's own behavior and the behavior of others is known as

a. attribution.
b. social comparison.
c. social referencing.
d. social learning.


ANSWER: a

Psychology

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A) optimism. B) pessimism. C) rumination. D) self-enhancement.

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