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haleyc112

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Which of the following best describes self-serving bias?
 
  a) It refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors.
  b) It refers to the tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality.
  c) It refers to bias toward inferences about a person's disposition even in the presence of very obvious situational constraints.
  d) It refers to the tendency to view the world through one's own cultural filters.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of people with an external locus of control?
 
  a) They see their behavior and relationships with others as dependent on their own behavior.
  b) They see their behavior and relationships with the environment and others as contingent on forces outside themselves and beyond their control.
  c) They feel themselves to be more self-efficacious when their agency is made explicit, leading to greater feelings of autonomy and efficacy.
  d) They need to worry about interpersonal harmony less because their group shares the goal of control.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b



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