When making an internal attribution, we infer that an event or a person's behavior directly correlates to personal factors such as traits, abilities, or feelings.
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Internal attribution is defined as the act of placing blame on some type of factor or criteria that could be controlled by an individual for the cause of a certain event.
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Dispositional attribution, also referred to as internal attribution, attempts to point to a person s traits, abilities, motives, or dispositions as a cause or explanation for their actions.
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It is argued that the participants presented with hard problems, believing that their success had been due to chance, chose the impairing drug because they were looking for an internal attribution.
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See user : BenB4's evidence section and my comment on it, for more . ( That said, if internal attribution is not cited, then external citing of the internal copy won't be either . ) email ) 09 : 05, 23 August 2007 ( UTC)
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Using this same example, if it were you who received a failing test score you might either make an internal attribution, such as " I just can t understand this material ", or you could make an external attribution, such as " this test was just too difficult ."