Attributional bias

Overweight people who are jealous of those more physically active than them will have a low self-esteem because they will want to achieve what normal weight people have achieved. “Perhaps the tendency to compare oneself to others possessing the thin ideal is the main source for the negative effects produced by the exposure to thin ideal media” (Gayle R. Bessenoff). Overweight people who are motivated by those that are more physically active than them will have a high self esteem because they…

Schizophrenia is a chronic disabling condition afflicting 1 percent of the population (1) and characterized by symptoms that can be broadly divided into three categories: positive, negative and cognitive. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include perceptual disturbances in the form of auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and disorganized behavior. Negative symptoms may include lack of motivation, social withdrawal, poverty of speech and lack of pleasure. Seven…

pooled effect size indicated that the difference between intervention and control conditions was in favor of the intervention. This corresponds to a heterogeneity was low to moderately high in all analyses. There was some indication of publication bias. Conclusions: It was found that psychological group treatments are more effective than control conditions in patients with SAD. Since heterogeneity between studies was high, more research comparing group psychotherapies for SAD to control is…

Ojeifoh Okosun – 900410102 MBA 6213 Management of Organizational Behavior Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and Career in Crisis– Week5 Background: Thomas Green is a marketing manager, who, after being quickly promoted, is severely disparaged by his supervisor, Frank Davis. Green and Davis disagree on market forecasts and work practices. Green thinks the sales goals set by Davis are based on "creative accounting" and totally exaggerate the current market setting (Sasser & Beckam 2009).…

Maquella Kuhlmann Ms. Schlosser Aeneid Literary Analysis; Argumentative 01 Dec. 2015 Self-Serving Bias The textbook definition of self-serving bias (www.psychologytoday.com) is when people tend to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors, so quite literally, self-serving bias is making oneself look good and blaming other factors. In Book 2 of the Aeneid, Virgil recounts the Battle of Troy from the Roman perspective while in Books 3…

helplessness. Nevertheless in the one of the articles the author goal was to find whether “individuals could employ goal-directed attention and deploy their attention toward happy faces, and away from angry faces, a bias index was created that was similar to what is used commonly in the attention bias literature (e.g., Wilson & MacLeod, 2003)”(Johnson, 2009, P. 10). Both authors agree on learned helplessness is more then it’s meaning. I agree because different studies have shown different…

Cognition has an impact on a lot of different areas such as: attention, perception, memory, problem solving and even production of language. This process focuses on the human behavior and how we think and behave. Psychologists often attempt to come up with an explanation for human behavior and then try to generalize that behavior to fit them with everyone’s behavior. However, people who have schizophrenia have a harder time to showing the basics of social cognition. Schizophrenia patients have…

Despite ICD’s emphasis on the internal origins, my model focuses on cognitive-behavioral and environmental risk factors combined. Cognitive-behavioral risk factors include low effortful control with impaired executive functioning, negative self-attributional…

for an individual to better understand and further interact with others around him/her. This skill allows for individuals to further separate their own feelings and opinions/thoughts from a situation at hand in order to tackle situations with less bias. Ross Thompson, from the University of California at Davis, emphasizes that perspective taking helps children make sense of their own and others’ experiences. Studies have also shown that children who learn perspective taking adjust better in…

A wide range of topics were covered in this semester’s psychology class. The semester began with material that provided a foundational knowledge of psychology and expanded into a varied range of topics. Interestingly, a number of these topics (e.g. Porters use of economics) would appear to be quite far removed from psychology, but as a deeper understanding of psychology was acquired, it became clear just how all-encompassing this field is. In addition to the typical class material such as text…