According to Beck, How Would Someone Who Was Depressed Be

question 220

Multiple Choice

According to Beck, how would someone who was depressed be likely to interpret the causes of their various successes and failures?

• A)make personal attributions (i.e.attribute to factors within your control) for failures, situational attributions (i.e.attribute to factors outside of your control) for successes
• B)make personal attributions for successes, situational attributions for failures
• C)make personal attributions for both successes and failures
• D)make situational attributions for both successes and failures
• E)None of these patterns would be predicted by Beck

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Systematic Observation

An organized method of collecting data where the observer adheres to a set of predefined procedures to minimize biases.

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Systematic Observation

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