Attributional Bias in Academic Performance
A study investigated how students explained their exam performance. The results showed that 85 out of 100 students who earned an A attributed their success to internal factors, such as their intelligence or study habits. Conversely, 80 out of 100 students who failed attributed their failure to external factors, such as unfair questions or distracting testing conditions. This pattern of attributions most clearly demonstrates which of the following?
A
Mere exposure effect
B
Self-serving bias
C
Actor-observer bias
D
Fundamental attribution error
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