Tyra blames her poor performance in college on a poor memory that she has had since birth. Tyra's behavior is an example of __________
A) a situational attribution.
B) the primacy effect.
C) a self-serving bias.
D) a dispositional attribution.

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Tyra is attributing her poor performance to a dispositional factor (her poor memory), which is a personal characteristic or trait, rather than the situation (college) or external factors.

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