PSYCH 3BA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Prosocial Behavior, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Likert Scale
22 Sep 2016
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E-asq contains 24 hypothetical life events: half about achievement, and half are about affiliation, half are good, and half are bad. Person asked to write down one major cause of the event, then rate the cause along the three attributional dimensions (internationality, stability, globality) Ratings of optimism and pessimism from written or spoken words along the three attributional dimensions. Explanatory styles of children, but not parents, are highly correlated. Children from stable, supportive home environments more likely to be optimistic as adults. Children of substance abusers more likely to have pessimistic explanatory style. Syder, higgins & stucky (1983; 2005): children who grow up with learned optimism had parents who understood their failures and attributed them to external rather than internal factors. Vander belt & peterson (1991): children whose parents had pessimistic explanatory style tended to work below their potential in the classroom. Tendency to believe that good rather than bad things will happen.
