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Question 28

At a busy customer support center, some agents remain calm and professional during angry client confrontations, whereas others become highly distressed and defensive.

Explain the difference between a dispositional (individual) explanation and a situational explanation for this variation in the agents' behaviour.

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Debates Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Debates

276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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