What are the skills needed for promoting good feelings or positive relationships? By employing these skills, how much of the overall happiness can one influence?

What will be an ideal response?


Noticeable standouts that promote good feelings or positive relationships are physical exercise, optimism, recreation, positive reciprocity, empathy, gratitude, forgiveness, and altruism. By employing these and other similar skills and behaviors, we can influence up to 40% of our overall happiness, or what Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007, p. 20) calls "the 40% solution.".

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a. a conditioned stimulus. b. an unconditioned stimulus. c. an unconditioned response. d. a conditioned response.

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b. magnitude. c. equal unit size. d. absolute zero.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Describe instrumental traits and expressive traits, including how they contribute to our views about what is "feminine" and "masculine"

What will be an ideal response?

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