Learned Helplessness
Explanatory Style
Positive Psychology
Research Studies
Random
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What is Learned Helplessness?
a condition that resulting from the perception that we have no control over our environment.
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What is explanatory style?
A way of explaining to ourselves our relative lack of control over our environment
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Positive Psychology deals with what 3 aspects?
Happiness, Excellence, Optimal Human Functioning
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True or False, healthier people are generally happier people?
True
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What are the two explanatory styles?
Optimistic explanatory style, and pessimistic explanatory style
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When did Seligman first observe learned helplessness?
In a laboratory experiment on dogs on his first day as a graduate student.
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People with what type of explanatory style tend to manage stress better?
Optimistic explanatory style
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Were Seligman’s ideas on positive psychology similar to the humanistic approach of Maslo?
Yes
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What does research say about the perceived happiness of people who are married compared to those who are not?
Research shows that people who are married are happier than those who are not.
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Which two schools did Martin Seligman attend?
Princeton University University of Pennsylvania
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T/F Seligman launched a research program on learned helplessness after the very first time he observed it?
True.
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People with what type of explanatory style tend to have a better overall health?
Optimistic explanatory style
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What are things that research supports about positive psychology in regards to money?
Money does not buy Happiness, however lack of money can lead to unhappiness. An income adequate to provide basic needs is a necessary, but not sufficient, prerequisite for happiness. People who earned more money were more satisfied with their lives than people who earned less money US citizens link happiness to money more so than citizens of European countries.
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When considering people with children. At what age of the child(ren) are the parents shown to be least happy?
When the children are at their youngest.
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Do descendants of immigrants from other cultures reflect the level of subjective well being characteristics of those cultures even in the absence of direct contact?
yes
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Which experiment showed that learned helplessness may have an effect on physical health, more specifically, tumors?
Rat experiment
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People with what type of explanatory style tend to blame others for negative events, and they believe these negative events will end soon also, they do not let these events affect other aspects of their lives.
Optimistic explanatory style
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True or False, People who live with excessive means are generally much happier than people who make an ordinary living?
False
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Elderly people who are hospitalized tend to be less happy not based on their physical impairments but because of what?
It is more based on their attitudes toward their infirmity
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Are attractive or beautiful people happier than people who may be less attractive?
Yes, personal attractiveness does seem to increase happiness
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In the experiment with ther elderly in nursing homes, did the group with more personal control or group with less personal control show a positive change?
Group with more personal control showed a positive change.
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People with what type of explanatory style tend to blame themselves for negative events, and believe these negative events will continue, they let these events affect many aspects of their lives.
Pessimistic Explanatory style
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As people age, what is the trend of how they perceive their happiness? In general do they get happier as they get older? Or unhappier?
They are happiest around age 18 then it dips down a bit around the age of 50, then goes back up to even happier at age 85.
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What is the main difference of subjective well-being between Western and Eastern Cultures? What aspect does it mainly deal with?
Social support is a big factor in western cultures and not nearly as much in eastern cultures
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In the study of college students in Japan and the U.S. which group of students were said to have the optimistic explanatory style?
The American Students
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