Everyone knows that feeling happy makes people smile, but can smiling make people feel happier? Explain why or why not

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
• In the process of facial feedback, the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed: A smile tells us that we're happy, a frown that we're angry or perplexed.
• When people are told to smile and look pleased or happy, their positive feelings increase.
• When they are told to look angry, displeased, or disgusted, positive feelings decrease.

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Kelly believed that individuals are motivated by:

a. the fact of being alive. c. past events. b. instinctive drives. d. the need to self-actualize.

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Infants in Substage 4 of the sensorimotor period, who can better anticipate events, sometimes use __________ to try to change those events

A) hit-or-miss actions B) their capacity for intentional behavior C) make-believe play D) tertiary circular reactions

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Which of the following motives are central to how we construe the world?

a. the need to feel good about ourselves and to feel our opinions are accurate b. the need to feel superior to others and to discriminate against them c. the need to be accurate in our perceptions and convince others that they are wrong d. the need for self-expression and creativity

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