What is realistic optimism?
What will be an ideal response?
Realistic optimism (Schnieder, 2001) is expecting good things to happen while employing appropriate reality checks.
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According to Walter Mischel, if a child experiences a particular situation, he or she will then respond with a unique, stable set of behaviors. These if-then patterns will be characteristic of an individual, leading to the stable characteristics we think of as ____
a. ?traits b. ?temperament c. ?personality d. ?self-concept
Randi is a practitioner of crystal healing: the use of different crystals to treat medical disorders ranging from headaches to cancer
Crystal healers like Randi use scientific terminology (e.g., energy, vibrations, etc.) when explaining the technique to patients, but do not use the scientific method to develop or test their treatments. This makes crystal healing a A) metascience. B) pseudoscience. C) episcience. D) protoscience.
________ is a symbol-based system used to convey or communicate ideas. It reflects your thinking and allows you to express what is on your mind to others
a) Cognition b) Language c) Intelligence d) Creativity
Many people have heard of sodium pentothal, which is more commonly known as truth serum
There is widespread belief that it is infallible as a means of getting a person to behave honestly; however, some research has found that people are actually capable of lying even when under the influence of truth serum. This is most relevant to the critical thinking concept of A) extraordinary claims. B) falsifiability. C) correlation versus causation. D) replicability.