What are the four goals cited in your text that can be achieved by performing prosocial actions? Describe each goal and give an example of how each goal might lead one person to help another
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Goals: improving our basic welfare; gaining social status and approval; managing self-image; managing emotions and moods.
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a. increased empathy. b. longer and more severe depressed moods. c. shorter and less severe depressed moods. d. good ability to distract themselves from their bad moods.
Investigative personality types enjoy thinking about abstract relationships
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The therapy that most directly attempts to help clients find and maintain meaning in their lives is
a. phenomenology. b. rational-emotive behavior therapy. c. psychoanalysis. d. logotherapy.
Jerome is in an experiment to determine the effectiveness of therapy. He is in the group who have not seen a therapist but who will eventually receive therapy. Jerome is part of the __________ group
a. role reversal b. therapy placebo c. waiting-list control d. spontaneous remission