Jorge just received an A+ on a physics exam. If you make an external attribution for this event, what might you thinking?
a. "So what! The exam was really easy. I would have gotten an A+ too."
b. "Well, I'm still not that impressed. All Jorge ever does is study. If I studied all the time I would get grades like that too."
c. "Jorge must have some sort of natural gift for physics; he is really smart!"
d. "Jorge is probably really good at physics, but I bet he does really badly in all of his other classes."
A
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