Question

Inga is running for student body president. The night before the election, she and her opponent have a debate. In reviewing her performance, Inga is most likely to attribute her own errors to ________ and to attribute her opponent’s errors to ________.

Answer 1

Inga is most likely to attribute her own errors to difficulty of the panel’s questions and to attribute her opponent’s errors to her inferior debating skills.

Explanation:

In the election for the student body president, Inga is sure to look at herself as the better of the two candidates. Her confidence and competitive spirit pushes a belief in her forward that makes her believe that she is better than her opponent for the sake of winning, that’s why if she does any errors, she connects them not to a fault in herself but to the questions asked by the panel and their difficulty.

On the other hand, she thinks that since her opponent is inferior to her, she attributes her mistakes to her poor and inferior debating skills, in order to further the belief of Inga’s superiority in her mind.