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stevenposner

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What are attributions? Why are psychologists interested in them? Describe, with a specific example, how attributions can be used to explain depression.
 
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Describe emotions and list the six basic emotions researchers have isolated to reduce our lexicon of feelings.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
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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.

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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.


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