Positive Psychology Quiz
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What does positive psychology focus on?

  • Positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions (correct)
  • Negative subjective experience, negative individual traits, and negative institutions
  • Subjective experience, individual traits, and institutions
  • Balanced subjective experience, balanced individual traits, and balanced institutions

What are some of the positive features ignored by the exclusive focus on pathology?

  • Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality (correct)
  • Hope, wisdom, creativity, pessimism, courage, spirituality
  • Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, cowardice, spirituality
  • Fear, ignorance, laziness, past mindedness, cowardice, materialism

What do the authors of the articles in the millennial issue of the American Psychologist discuss?

  • What causes sadness, the effects of control and restriction, how pessimism and despair affect health, what constitutes foolishness, and how talent and creativity are wasted
  • What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes foolishness, and how talent and creativity come to fruition
  • What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how pessimism and despair affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity are wasted
  • What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity come to fruition (correct)

What do the authors predict for the next century?

<p>A science and profession that will understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What choice do Americans face entering a new millennium?

<p>To continue to increase material wealth while addressing the human needs of its people and those of the rest of the planet (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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