What are Fredrickson's thought-action repertoires?
What will be an ideal response?
Positive emotions can evoke a wide range of options through broadening and building. By broadening what Fredrickson calls thought-action repertoires we are able to build personal resources. Thus, positive emotions evoke more flexible thoughts about actions we can take that in turn build resources. That is, we can think of lots of activities that give us pleasure and ponder them before we decide what potentially resource-building action to take (e.g., call a friend, go shopping, go out to dinner, take a walk, etc.). From this perspective, negative emotions lead to short-term survival gains through facilitating the employment of specific narrow options and positive emotions lead to long-term survival through setting the stage for use of a general wide range of options.
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a. one must be sure that the underlying relationship between the two variables is linear. b. the diagram is more informative than the correlation coefficient regarding causality. c. one must make sure that the data are from a truncated range. d. the correlation coefficient cannot show the direction of the relationship.
As a result of homeostasis, a person who is tired will
a. fight to stay awake. b. do something to distract herself. c. start to become a bit moody. d. talk a lot about sleep. e. try to find a place to fall asleep.
What diagnosis is most appropriate for Kristi? Her weight is stable but she reports that, several times a week, she "loses control" and "stuffs her face" eating lots of cookies and ice cream, then throws up by tickling her throat
a) Anorexia nervosa b) Bulimia nervosa c) Binge eating disorder d) She would not be diagnosed because her weight is stable
Early humans, as hunter-gatherers, did not know when they would find food. If they found fat, they ate it, because fat could be stored in the body and used later when food might be scarce. For this reason, humans evolved to like fat. Human cravings have not changed much, even though our environments have. So our preference for fatty foods can be attributed to
A. collective efficacy. B. softwiring. C. differential selection. D. adaptation.