Losing a job no longer carries the stigma that it did a decade

89. The statement: “I am successful at my job because of my skills” is an ability attribution.


ANS: T


90. Causal attributions of task difficulty and luck are internal, and causal attributions of ability and effort are external.


ANS: F

Switch internal and external to make this statement true.


91. The self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the tendency of people to attribute their success with a task to internal factors and their failure to external factors.


ANS: F

The appropriate term is self-serving bias. The self-fulfilling prophecy refers to a halo effect, rather than an attributional effect.


92. Losing a job no longer carries the stigma that it did a decade or more ago.


ANS: T


93. After being fired from a job, a constructive action to take would be to work through the firing psychologically.


ANS: T

94. After being fired from a job, a constructive action to take would be to use negative attributions as part of your explanation.


ANS: F

The constructive action to take would be not to use negative attributions. Experts say that you should never say anything bad about your former employer.


95. After being fired from a job, a constructive action would be to work with your former employer to develop an exit statement


ANS: T Creation of Value