in-class questions

according to learning theorists, learning is the change in ______ as a function of ________.

a. behavior; experience

b. behavior; cognitions

c. personality; sensations

d. personality; associations

a

if Loren is rewarded for saying thank-you after receiving a gift, then they will be more likely to say thank-you after receiving another gift. this change in behavior is the result of …

a. social learning

b. classical conditioning

c. operant conditioning

d. cognitive effect

c

Bandura’s efficacy expectation is a belief about …

a. what the person believes he or she is capable of doing

b. the amount of work required to be effective

c. the expected worth of an outcome

d. the probability of success expected for an average person

a

someone with a personality disorder…

a. does not have any advantageous traits

b. is likely to grow out of the disorder

c. has thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors that are beyond the normal range of variation

d. can easily be given a specific diagnosis

c

people who have personality disorders…

a. can and will always tell you about their symptoms

b. might think that there is nothing wrong with them

c. are incapable of forming relationships

d. always wish to get rid of their symptoms

b

what are the common symptoms of a person with narcissistic personality disorder?

a. they are strange and deluded

b. they have inappropriate or intense emotions

c. they are entitled and exploitative

d. they are shy and inhibited

c

there are two kinds of people that don’t experience painful emotions, what are these kinds of people?

1. psychopaths

2. dead

fill in the blank: Dr. Ben Shahar talks about a paradox of emotions, he says that when we suppress these painful emotions, they _______. when we give ourself the freedom to experience the full range of emotions, we are being ________.

intensify; fully human

fill in the blank: in the 1960s, the average age for the onset of depression was _______, today it is ________.

29; 14

fill in the blank: Danny Kahneman (who wrote the book Thinking Fast and Slow) found that women appeared not to be happy when they were with their kids because they were not really ______.

present with their kids

fill in the blank: stress is not the problem; the problem is a lack of _______.

recovery

fill in the blank: it’s not that exercise is like taking an anti-depressant, it’s that ______.

not exercising is like taking a depressant

fill in the blank: Kabat-Zinn and Davidson found that the groups that meditated for 45 minutes a day for eight weeks showed ______ levels of anxiety and their mood _____ significantly… and their brain transformed in that they showed greater activity in _____.

decreased; improved; left side of the prefrontal cortex

fill in the blank: when we appreciate the good in our lives, the good _____.

appreciates

fill in the blank: Emmons and McCullough found that people that had to write about five hassles in their life each night performed _____, and people that had to write about five things which they are grateful for performed the _____ on scales of happiness, optimism, success, health, and generosity.

the worst; best

there are different kinds of gratitude, according to Sonja Lyubomirsky, and this can be manifested in three methods. what are these methods?

1. grateful for individuals

2. counting your blessings

3. savoring life as it happens