Which attribution model suggests that we arrive at a dispositional attribution by assessing whether the behaviour in question is socially desirable, chosen or non-chosen and has a unique effect?

a) The fundamental attribution error
b) Correspondent inference theory
c) The covariation model and correspondent inference theory


CORRECT = C

Psychology

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