A father suggests that his son's low marks in school are due to the child's laziness.The father has made
A) an external attribution.
B) a distinctive attribution.
C) an internal attribution.
D) a situational attribution.

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The father's suggestion that the son's low marks in school are due to the child's laziness is an example of an internal attribution. This is because the father is attributing the cause of the low marks to a personal characteristic of the child (laziness) rather than to any external factors, such as a difficult or challenging academic environment.

A Father Suggests That His Son's Low Marks in School