Individuals who have a mastery orientation attribute their failures to

A) luck.
B) factors that they can control or change.
C) other people in their lives.
D) They don't have failures because they avoid challenging tasks.

B) factors that they can control or change. These children attribute their successes to their own hard work and abilities—internal and controllable factors—and their failures to factors that they can either control (such as effort or strategy) or change (such as task difficulty).