I Tend to Explain My Failures by Blaming Them on External

question 64

Multiple Choice

I tend to explain my failures by blaming them on external events that are beyond my control.This __?_ is likely to undermine my overall health and adjustment.

• A)mirror-image thinking
• B)depressive realism
• C)clinical intuition
• D)explanatory style

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Definitions:

Variability

The measure of how much data points in a set diverge from the average or mean value, indicating the spread or dispersion of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Standard Error

The typical variability or spread in the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean, is referred to as the standard deviation.

T-statistic

The t-statistic is a ratio calculated from the difference between a sample mean and a population mean, divided by the standard error of the mean.