Discuss how attributions may be related to health
What will be an ideal response?
Learned helplessness results from the tendency to make global, stable, internal
attributions for the negative events in one's life. This attribution pattern characterizes
the depressive explanatory style, and is associated with depression and decreased
physical health. For example, one study showed that people with depressive
explanatory styles exhibited a weaker immune response, though admittedly these data
are only correlation. In contrast, individuals who make specific, unstable, and external
attributions for negative life events tend to be healthier and recover from surgery more
quickly.
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a. latency c. anal b. phallic d. genital
The person who increased his memory span to 70 digits following a year of practice
a. used his knowledge of running times to chunk digits. b. did not show evidence of hierarchical organization. c. could generalize from recalling digits to recalling letters. d. All these
The more "committed" the brain is to native-language patterns, the
A) better children's mastery of their native language. B) more effectively children acquire foreign language. C) more difficult it is for children to acquire reading skills. D) greater the chance the child is ambidextrous.
"That guy wouldn't stop running his mouth at me, so I had to pop him one." This exemplifies the provocation culture of honor value.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)