Adopting a Pessimistic Explanatory Style Is Like Embracing a __________

question 46

Multiple Choice

Adopting a pessimistic explanatory style is like embracing a __________ personality style, because both orientations assume there is little to lose.

• A) Type A
• B) Type B
• C) Type D
• D) Type T

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Definitions:

Schemas

Frameworks of knowledge and assumptions that we have about people, objects, and events.

Bartlett

Frederic Bartlett, a pioneering cognitive psychologist known for his work on memory and cognition, particularly on how people reconstruct the past.

Misinformation Effect

Erroneous recollections of witnessed events that result from information learned after the fact.

Loftus's 1978 Study

A landmark research study by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus that demonstrated the malleability of human memory through the misinformation effect.