Question

Please write in full sentences and atleast 1-2 paragraphs for each please.

-Correctly describe self-handicapping in detail

-What questions do you now have after considering the event in light of psychological theory of self-handicapping?

-What type of experiment(s) might help address self-handicapping further? Like how can we better our understanding of this? What experiments can we design to better understand it or explore more?

If you can please watch season 3 episode 6 of grey's anatomy and explain the situation of the patient with burnt hands and how that's self-handicapping.

Answer 1

Self handicapping in psychology is a terminology that is used to describe a behavioral and claimed aspect, which is enacted as a result of a innate trait that an individual harbors.

Self handicapping is usually employed by people to seek an excuse or rather a justification for a failed attempt on a task, which gives them a sense of escapism for having not been able to complete it and blaming external factors and causes for it.

Self handicapping can be explored further by understanding the cingbutve adn affective states of people with respect to certain things they consider as drawbacks or hindrances to their performances and by assessing performances based on their potential.

Self report can also help asses the personality traits that are more. Likely to harbor qualities and potential of self handicapping.

Gretchen is the patent that comes within the hospital with a burnt hand, she is a classic example of self handicapping. As Meredith deals with Gretchen she realises that tge hand was burn in purpose so that Gretchen could swerve past a atest that she has already failed five times and is embarrassed of. This shows that she would rather like to have a blame put on some external factor and behave accordingly as opposed to failing again and be blamed for it personally. This clearly depicts the phenomenon of self handicapping.