PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eyewitness Testimony, Explanatory Style, Confirmation Bias
9 Dec 2018
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Define clinical hindsight bias and give one example: being confident about the diagnosis after the fact. Ex: fake patients entering a mental hospital, said they were hearing voices, childhood looked at and found it lined up with diagnosis or aftermath of a violent tragedy. By asking questions that led to the answer they suspect/believe. Depressed individuals tend to not have the self-serving bias that most people have. Define explanatory style: typical way of explaining events. When negative events occur, depressed individuals tend to think of failures as (list and give an example): stable, global, internal. Ex: don made a mistake at work today. Stable: i"m always going to make mistakes like this. Global: i make mistake s in everything i do. Most people worry about self-presentation in highly evaluative situations (evaluation apprehension). People with generalized anxiety tend to have: very high evaluation apprehension leading to constant self-presentation concerns.
