What is one mechanism that has been proposed to explain the longer life associated with optimism?
a) Optimists are more likely to eat a low fat diet.
b) Optimists are more likely to seek medical advice.
c) Optimists tend to have a higher level of hardiness than pessimists.
c) Pessimists tend to alienate optimists, who thus find each other and provide social support.
B
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A. hormones B. dopamine C. instincts D. serotonin
In Rogers's person-centered therapy, the therapist offers the client:
a. positive regard. b. conditional positive regard. c. positive self-regard. d. unconditional positive regard.
Unlike barbiturates, benzodiazepines
a. act on GABA receptors. b. are used to treat anxiety. c. show a 100:1 ratio between lethal dosage and therapeutic dosage. d. are rarely prescribed by physicians. e. can prove fatal when combined with small amounts to ethyl alcohol.
According to the biological perspective, generalized anxiety disorder is __________
a) a danger signal that repressed conflicts are threatening to surface. b) a learned reaction. c) the result of illogical, irrational thought processes. d) linked to an imbalance in several neurotransmitters in the nervous system.