Emotional self-regulation refers to
A) the automatic process infants use to respond to others' emotions.
B) the active seeking of emotional information from a trusted person in an uncertain situation.
C) a higher-order set of feelings, including guilt, shame, and envy.
D) the strategies children use to adjust their emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity.
Answer: D) the strategies children use to adjust their emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity.
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a. stressful events can be cumulative. b. the scales used to score stress are flawed. c. major life events tend to be more positive. d. smaller stressors are usually because of illness.
Reports of near-death experiences typically involve
a. meeting with a dark and threatening being b. an out-of-body experience or sense of detachment from one's physical body c. lack of awareness of one's surroundings d. a failure to be pronounced clinically dead e. no great difficulty in communicating to others what has happened
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What will be an ideal response?