Martin Seligman is most associated with which school of psychology?
a. behaviorism
b. ?psychodynamic psychology
c. ?humanism
d. ?positive psychology
ANSWER:
d
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a. LDL b. BMI c. HDL d. ADA
The "heritability index" tells us the extent to which...
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