9/15/2015
Benard Weiner proposed a theory that looked at how people understand success and failure. According to Weiner, humans feel the need to explain both success and failure, although this need is more prevalent in situations in which the outcome was not unexpected. Success or failure factors may be either controllable or uncontrollable.
A controllable factor you can change or influence if you wish to do so. An uncontrollable factor is one that you cannot easily change. For example, if I depend on the teacher for success or if I compete with my peers for the few available high grades, I explain my situation by pointing to uncontrollable factors. If I fail in my studies, I can attribute this to external, uncontrollable factors by blaming
Benard Weiner proposed a theory that looked at how people understand success and failure. According to Weiner, humans feel the need to explain both success and failure, although this need is more prevalent in situations in which the outcome was not unexpected. Success or failure factors may be either controllable or uncontrollable.
A controllable factor you can change or influence if you wish to do so. An uncontrollable factor is one that you cannot easily change. For example, if I depend on the teacher for success or if I compete with my peers for the few available high grades, I explain my situation by pointing to uncontrollable factors. If I fail in my studies, I can attribute this to external, uncontrollable factors by blaming