An internal attribution is one that:
a. persons who are depressed tend to make.
b. persons who are not depressed tend to make.
c. attributes failure to bad luck or bad timing.
d. is characteristic of the thinking of depressed boys, but not of depressed girls
Question 2An example of shape constancy is:
a. recognizing that a door is a rectangle whether it be closed or ajar.
b. perceiving a ruler to be 12 inches long even when viewed from 6 feet away.
c. seeing someone in your peripheral vision.
d. scanning a human face from the edges inward.
Question 3Children who are depressed tend to interpret failures as:
a. undeserved. c. specific.
b. internal. d. unstable.
Question 4According to a research study by Thomas Bower (1974), at what age do infants show the ability of size constancy?
a. 2-3 months c. 7-9 months
b. 5-6 months d. at approximately 12 months
Question 5I failed this project, so I will probably fail at school is an example of ____.
a. depressive thinking c. a cognitive distortion
b. attributional style d. all of these