People who have a more _____ explanatory style recover more quickly from failure or negative life pressures
a. optimistic
c. depressed
b. exciting
d. pessimistic
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: According to Seligman, the important difference between people who recover from temporary depression and those who do not is their explanatory style. "A pessimistic explanatory style changes learned helplessness from brief and local to long-lasting and general," he wrote. In optimists, a failure produces only brief demoralization.
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