Amanda's supervisor is very rude to her in the morning at work. While thinking about her boss' behavior, she concludes that her boss' boyfriend must pick a fight with her every single morning before she leaves for work, and that her boss really needs to leave that relationship. Amanda's attribution is:
A. Internal, stable, and controllable
B. External, stable, and uncontrollable
C. Internal, unstable, and uncontrollable
D.
External, stable, and controllable
E. External, unstable, and uncontrollable
Categorize each piece of information by comparing to other pieces of information.
• Physical constructs: objective vs. subjective- emphasizes people's appearance, causing us to notice objective characteristics such as height, age, ethnicity, and body shape, as well as subjective characteristics such ad physical attractiveness.
• Role constructs- emphasizes people's social or
professional position, so we notice that a person is a teacher, an accountant, a father, a community leader, and so on.
• Interaction construction- emphasize people's behavior, so we notice that a person is outgoing, aggressive, shy, sarcastic, or considerate.
• Psychological- emphasizes people's thoughts and feelings, causing us to perceive that a person is angry, self-assured, insecure, envious, or worried.