A: external unstable; internal stable
Incorrect.
External unstable causes of failure in school would be things
such as bad luck and bad teachers, while examples of internal stable cause of
failure in school are lack of ability and lack of personal discipline.
While it might be okay to retrain students to cease attributing their academic
to bad luck and bad teachers (external unstable), it would not be good to have
students attribute their behavior to lack of ability and lack of discipline
(internal stable). If people changed their attribution of failure to their
lack of ability, they would feel helpless to improve. Research shows that
students who make internal stable attributions put forth less effort on subsequent
tasks.