What is dispositional optimism?
What will be an ideal response?
As defined by leading experts in the area, Charles Carver, Michael Scheier, and their associates, "optimists are people who expect good things to happen; pessimists are people who expect bad things to happen." Dispositional optimism is an enduring tendency to have global expectations of positive outcomes.
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According to Skinner, parental disapproval of a child's behavior will:
a. foster the child's hostility and aggression. b. inhibit the child's tendency to self-actualize. c. lead to the cessation of that behavior. d. reinforce the behavior.
The Apgar scale is administered 1 minute after delivery and again 5 minutes after birth.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The most appropriate use of electroconvulsive therapy is as a
a. preferred treatment for anxiety disorders, particularly PTSD. b. preferred treatment for organic psychoses in which brain pathology exists. c. last resort treatment for schizophrenia that has not responded to drug treatment. d. last resort means of treatment for selected cases of depression that involves self- destructive or suicidal behavior.
Byron rarely lectures, but instead creates conditions in his classroom that encourage students to explore and construct knowledge for themselves. Byron is using
a. recitation. b. rote learning. c. direct instruction. d. discovery learning.