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stevenposner · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

What are attributions? Why are psychologists interested in them? Describe, with a specific example, how attributions can be used to explain depression.

Help wanted on this one please

Question 2

Describe emotions and list the six basic emotions researchers have isolated to reduce our lexicon of feelings.

What are emotions?

matt95 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: Attributions involve how people perceive causes, their beliefs about cause-effect relations. Attribution errors can play a prominent role in the development of psychopathology. For example, a person who attributes a bad event to internal, stable, and global causes is more at risk for depression. So a student getting a bad grade who says I'm stupid will feel more helpless and ultimately more depressed.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Emotions, internal feeling states, are essential to human experience and to our understanding of mental disorders. The six basic emotions are love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness, and fear.