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Explain the Basic Differences Between Obsessions and Compulsions

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Explain the basic differences between obsessions and compulsions.


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Self-attributions

The process by which individuals explain the causes of their own behavior and events, implicating their own personal characteristics or external situations.

Explanatory Styles

The ways in which individuals habitually interpret and explain events happening around them, often associated with optimism or pessimism.

Automatic Processes

Mental activities that occur without conscious awareness or control, often as a result of learning and repetition.

Self-serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

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