The positive psychology movement is a reaction to which of the following?
a. The attention paid to group research by social psychologists.
b. The emphasis on weakness and disease in psychology.
c. Political changes in the United States.
d. Advances in evolutionary theory.
Answer: B
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A) 1896 B) 1921 C) 1949 D) 1969
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a. Concepts like reinforcement and punishment are too vague. b. Behaviorist explanations are too simplistic to explain all human social behavior. c. Terms like "cognition" or "thinking" or "feeling" are too vague to be studied. d. Scientists cannot deal with concepts like "thinking" or "feeling" in an objective way.
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