According to the Research Cited in Your Text, Which of the Following

question 49

Multiple Choice

According to the research cited in your text, which of the following patients would be expected to be better adjusted and most successful in coping with AIDS?

• A) Paul, who is confident that the medical personnel who staff his experimental treatment program are outstanding in the field and his best chance for survival.
• B) Mary, who contracted AIDS through a transfusion and feels that she has no personal control over the disease.
• C) Tom, who has turned to alternatives to traditional medicine and feels that his holistic practitioner can best arrest the progression of the disorder.
• D) John, who feels that he can control the disease and its symptoms and has taken personal responsibility for its treatment.
• E) None of these people would be expected to be adjusted and successful in coping with AIDS.

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Definitions:

Impression Formation Theory

Theory that explains how you develop perceptions about people and how you maintain and use those perceptions to interpret their behaviors.

Correspondence Inference Theory

A psychological theory that explains how and why people draw inferences about the dispositional attributes of others based on observed behavior and its consequences.

Self-Serving Bias

Tendency to perceive our own behavior as more positive than others’ behavior.

Fundamental Attribution Error

Error that arises from attributing another person’s behavior to internal, controllable causes rather than to external, uncontrollable causes.