If your sister becomes upset when her best friend does not come to her birthday party, it would be safe to assume that her primary appraisal of this event was ____
a. ?irrelevant
b. ?stressful
c. ?positive
d. ?counterfactual
ANSWER:
b
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a) Convergent thinking b) Dialectical thinking c) Design thinking d) Causal thinking
Which is not one of Thomas O'Dea's fundamental characteristics of human existence?
a. Uncertainty b. Alienation c. Powerlessness d. Scarcity e. None of the above.
Which statement BEST describes the effects of optimism on health?
A) Optimism directly improves physical, but not psychological, health. B) Optimism directly improves physical and psychological health. C) Optimism maintains psychological health in the face of a physical health problem. D) Optimism promotes psychological health in the absence of a physical health problem.
In depression, interpretive bias refers to the tendency to….
A. Perceive harmless bodily sensations as a sign of an impending heart attack B. Shift the attention to negative information in the environment C. Preferentially recall negative information D. Infer negative information from ambiguous scenarios