Purpose: To describe the operation of attributional process.

1. Describe a situational context where you were committed to fundamental attribution error.

2. Describe a situational context where you were committed to self-serving bias.

Part 2- Purpose: To explain cognitive dissonance and coping strategies.

Describe a situational context where you experienced cognitive dissonance.

Describe what coping strategies you used to reduce or eliminate the dissonance.

Part 3 -Purpose: To illustrate the application of the expectancy theory in a practical setting.

Step: Use the concepts and principles (i.e., expectancy, valence, instrumentality) from the expectancy theory to illustrate how an employee chooses to work harder (or less hard) in a particular job because of the perceptions regarding the process (i.e., probability of attaining desired outcomes, attractiveness of the outcomes, probability of attaining desired performance) of his or her level of effort in that job. You can use a hypothetical example.