According to Barbara Fredrickson, positive emotions tend to
a. narrow our mental focus on what is important.
b. make it more likely that you will find creative solutions to your problems.
c. increase the bodily arousal so that you can more effectively deal with the stress.
d. do all of these.
ANSWER: b
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A. recognition of one's name B. inborn motor responses C. the ability to see D. the memory of birth
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding suicide?
A) More men than women attempt suicide. B) More women than men attempt suicide. C) Depression is a better predictor of suicide than are feelings of hopelessness. D) There is no relationship between age and attempting suicide.
In order to make statements about the population from information obtained from a sample, we must use
a. an experimental design. c. inferential statistics. b. a correlational design. d. descriptive statistics.
What can you conclude based on the studies that compared very poor adolescents who had intensive intervention in preschool, those who had intensive intervention in elementary school, and those who had no intensive intervention?
A. Funding preschool interventions will yield more positive results than funding elementary school interventions. B. Funding either type of intervention program will yield about the same results. C. Neither type of intervention program had significant enough results to justify future funding. D. Funding elementary school interventions will yield more positive results than funding preschool interventions.