AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -If Sandra has adopted a pessimistic explanatory style, she will attribute her mark to her personal characteristics, rather than considering that her peers also thought that the exam was difficult. For example, she might say something like “It’s my fault, ” “I don’t understand statistics, ” or “I’ll never do well.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanatory style consists of three dimensions: internal/external; stable/unstable and global/specific. Internal/external refers to whether or not a person believes that they have control or influence over events.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, hopelessness, as indexed by explana-tory style, is a risk factor for later infectious disease, and predicts illness above and beyond initial health and depression. The results of study one showed that explanatory style predicts illness in college students in the short term.

Detailed explanation-4: -Depressive attributional styles have been studied for decades. Research has found that people with depressive explanatory types often attribute unwanted or adverse events to their life as internal, global, and stable. Seligman proposed that a person’s explanatory style could lead to depression.