Tina has suffered many rejections lately. Nothing she seems to do prevents those rejections, and now she has begun to believe that events in her life cannot be controlled by her behavior. According to Seligman, the expectation that life events cannot be controlled is called ______.
A. learned optimism
B. learned irrelevance
C. learned helplessness
D. learned autonomy
C. learned helplessness
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a. id. b. ego. c. superego. d. conscience.
Sean believes that he has a high sense of control over his own health, so when his kidney transplant unexpectedly fails, he is likely to
a. avoid feeling depressed. b. feel particularly depressed. c. seek out the company of more pessimistic patients in the same situation. d. exhibit a particularly strong immune response.
In classical conditioning, when an established conditioned stimulus is used to condition a second neutral stimulus, the process at work is:
a. stimulus generalization b. second-order conditioning c. stimulus habituation d. conditioned inhibition
Jennifer is very good at drawing and copying pictures. Which type of intelligence is Jennifer using?
A) Musical B) Logical C) Linguistic D) Spatial