C: internal unstable; internal stable
Incorrect.
An internal unstable attribution of academic failure
is attributing your poor performance to factors such as: lack of effort,
or lack of interest in the subject. An example of an internal stable
attribution regarding the cause of academic failure would be lack of ability
or lack of discipline. If this was the goal of attributional retraining,
it would cause students to perform more poorly. Changing the attribution
that you do poorly because you don't study enough (internal unstable) to
the attribution that you have no ability (internal stable) would cause
a person to feel helpless in improving, because they lack ability, and
can not get any better.