A woman feels that the reason the pie she was making burned is because everything she does is wrong and that she will never succeed at any task she attempts. The woman is expressing a(n) ________ attribution.

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The woman is expressing a global attribution because she is generalizing the failure of one specific task (burning a pie) to all aspects of her life, indicating a belief that she will never succeed at any task, not just the task at hand.  "Everything I do is wrong" is a statement that applies widely across many situations and is thus a global attribution.

A Woman Feels That the Reason the Pie She Was