Question

Sonia and Brigitte are coworkers. Sonia is almost always 20 minutes late to work. Brigitte says that Sonia is always late due to her careless and laidback attitude. In the context of understanding individual behavior, Brigitte has made a(n) _____ about the reason for Sonia's unpunctuality

Answer 1

Answer: internal attribution.

Step-by-step explanation:

Attribution theory approaches the way ordinary people find causes for behavior and situations. For example, when someone is angry, some may think it´s due to them being bad-tempered while others will assume something bad happened.

Dispositional attribution credits certain behavior to any internal quality, instead of an external cause. That means attributing behavior to a person´s personality, motives or beliefs.