Assignment 1

Article Review #1

AChanging attributions with an attribution training technique

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By Orbach, Singer, Murphey

Please answer each question.

1. Name two aspects that the authors are trying to accomplish in the first two paragraphs.

2. According to Weiner, what is the most functional attribution for failure a person may use? Give an example.

3. According to the authors, what has been a major problem with previous attribution retraining research?

4. How is this problem remedied? That is, how will attribution retraining in this experiment be different from past research in this area of study?

5. According to the authors, what has not been currently conducted with attribution retraining?

6. What are the three hypotheses of this study?

7 How are attributions measured in this study? What are its subscales?

8 How was failure induced to the participants?

9 What are the three attributional treatments given?

10.Give one problem with the methodology. (Hint: long term vs. short term training)

11. Name the three main findings of this study. Do they support or refute the hypotheses?

12. How does the discussion open?

13. Name one additional problem with previous attribution retraining research as cited in the discussion. Also, show how the authors remedied this problem.

14. According to the authors, how can these findings be applied to a real world setting?

15. What is a recommendation for future research?

This paper is due February 6. It is worth 20 points and must be typewritten.