According to Barbara Fredrickson, positive emotions tend to do all of the following EXCEPT
a. broadening our mental focus.
b. creating an urge to play and to explore.
c. increasing the bodily arousal that occurs when we are stressed.
d. making it more likely that a person will find a creative solution.
ANSWER: c
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a. intellectually challenged b. savantism c. intellectual disability d. learning disability
The discussion section of an APA-style research report typically contains which of the following?
a. restatement of the hypothesis b. comprehensive literature review c. complete description of the participants/subjects d. all tables and figures
The most prominent difference in the way parents socialize their sons and daughters
appears to be the a. difference in the amount of time they spend playing with a son or a daughter. b. difference in the amount of time they spend talking with a son or a daughter. c. difference in the kinds of clothes they select for a son or daughter to wear. d. differences in the kinds of encouragement they offer for "gender-appropriate" play. e. difference in the amount of reinforcement they provide to their sons and daughters.
Anne is looking for a treatment of her phobia, so she consults a psychoanalyst and a behavioral psychologist. She receives recommendations that are quite different
The behavioral psychologist suggests a program to rid her of her phobia in a relatively brief amount of time. How will the psychoanalyst view such a proposed treatment? a) Removing the phobia without dealing with the underlying conflict will lead to symptom substitution. b) The phobia can be removed only after a detailed analysis of Anne's nightmares over the last few years. c) We must admit that drug treatments seem to be more effective for phobias than the various forms of psychotherapy. d) It took years to develop the phobia, thus it is so well entrenched that it is not likely to respond to any form of therapy.