Preethi had an important presentation in her linguistics class, but she waited until the last minute to start working on it. She frantically gathered articles the day before, but did not have enough time to thoroughly read them. As a result, her presentation was lacking, and she was not able to answer some of the questions posed to her by her professor and classmates. When Preethi received her grade, she was disappointed but realized it was due to her lack of preparation. Preethi's attribution for her failure was:
A) Internal and uncontrollable
B) Internal and controllable
C) External and uncontrollable
D) External and controllable

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Preethi recognized that her lack of preparation was the cause of her failure, which suggests an internal attribution. Additionally, she could have chosen to prepare earlier and more thoroughly, indicating that it was a controllable factor.

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