Explain what is meant by self-defeating patterns of attributions. What therapy is used to change depressed individuals self-defeating pattern of attributions?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Self-defeating patterns of attributions involves seeing negative outcomes as internally caused and positive outcomes as largely due to external factors (e.g., luck). In order to change this pattern, therapists attempt to have depressed individuals take credit for their successes and acknowledge the uncontrollable nature and potential for external or situational causes for their failures.
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a. social psychology. b. counseling psychology. c. clinical psychology. d. cognitive psychology.
Within a scientific discipline, the focus of investigation is often cyclical in nature. In psychology, the cycle is represented by an emphasis on the study of ____ in the 1880s and on the study of ____ in the 1980s.?
a. ?overt behavior; physiological reactions b. ?conscious experience; cognitive processes c. ?perception; sensation d. ?consciousness; overt behavior