__________ Mechanisms Are Thoughts or Actions That Are Used to Help

question 19

Short Answer

__________ mechanisms are thoughts or actions that are used to help individuals handle or reduce stress.

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Definitions:

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.

Internal Locus

An individual's belief that they can control their life events and outcomes, as opposed to external forces having that control.