People suffering from depression tend to explain events in their life in a consistent way. Describe the three elements of this "depressive explanatory style" and then provide examples of each
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points. Examples will vary.
? Internalizing—Blaming failures on internal (personal) factors instead of external factors. Example: Being laid off because of a bad economy, but believing you were fired because you're a bad employee.
? Stabilizing—Believing that things will never get better. Example: Believing that you will always be sad because you currently are.
? Globalizing—Believing small setbacks or problems apply to everything. Example: Believing that no one will ever love you because one person didn't want to date you.
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a. Sara, a 25-year old female college graduate who's had five male sexual partners and is a Christian b. Jarrod, a 25-year-old male college graduate who's had only one female partner and is an Atheist c. Doug, a 40-year-old male college graduate who is not married, is Catholic, and holds very traditional attitudes about gender roles d. Joyce, a 40-year-old female doctoral student who is divorced and does not subscribe to any specific religious affiliation
What the results of a study mean is the focus of the ____ section
a. follow-up b. discussion c. results d. debriefing
According to your text, a perfect study would involve
a. random assignment; random selection; realistic setting; control of all extraneous variables. b. random assignment or random selection; control over all extraneous variables. c. high levels of external validity. d. an experiment, which shows that one variable causes another.
If you learn new material and then get a good night's sleep, you will retain more of the new material. Which of the following is the best explanation for this phenomenon?
a) Sleep allows consolidation of new memories at the neuronal level b) Sleep allows development of associations to the new material. c) Sleep interferes with the normal process of decay that occurs during wakefulness. d) Sleep interferes with the breakdown of acetylcholine