One Difficulty with a Purely Attributional Explanation of Depression Is

question 111

Multiple Choice

One difficulty with a purely attributional explanation of depression is that negative attributions

• A) are more characteristic of men than of women.
• B) may be a consequence rather than a cause of depression.
• C) do not coincide with actual episodes of depression.
• D) are more clearly associated with mania than with depression.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of values obtained from sample statistics, which is probable to encompass the value of an unidentified population parameter.

Population Parameter

A numerical characteristic or feature of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.

Sampling Distributions

The distribution likelihood of a statistical value gathered from multiple samples from a given population.

Consistent Estimator

An attribute of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, the estimates it produces converge in probability to the parameter being estimated.