Pam didn't go see the movie Gravity because her friends all said she wouldn't be able to handle it. When she found out how good it was, she blamed her friends. Pam is demonstrating an internal locus of control. T/F

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Seamus Camacho

Social Studies

11 March, 01:38

Pam didn't go see the movie Gravity because her friends all said she wouldn't be able to handle it. When she found out how good it was, she blamed her friends. Pam is demonstrating an internal locus of control. T/F

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Lilianna Bender · Answer 1

False.

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Locus of control refers to the degree to which individuals feel they have power over the circumstances that affect their lives. Internal control locus refers to the feel the feeling that one is in full control of his life's events while external locus of controls happens when one believes that an event or phenomenon is decided by those in authority. As per the question, Pam blames her friends for not watching the movie which is an example of external locus of control.