Exam 14: Facets of Personality: Taking Control, Taking Chances, and Finding Happiness

According to Freed & Tompson,2011,children whose mothers were depressed and had little education or income were likely to:

Zuckerman used the method of _____ to identify sensation seeking.

According to a study among older Germans who were hospitalized with various disabilities,it was found that their _____ rather than their _____ decreased their subjective well-being

Rotter assessed the locus of control of research participants with the use of:

Which of the following statements is true of the effect of optimism on cognitive functioning?

People who score higher on the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS)are more likely to engage in daydreams.

In the context of gender differences in sensation seeking,women scored higher on boredom susceptibility,whereas men scored higher on experience seeking.

Which of the following is a characteristic of people who have an internal locus of control?

According to Seligman,learned helplessness during infancy and early childhood can predispose us to a(n):

People who have a more _____ explanatory style recover more quickly from failure or negative life pressures.

Describe the effect of geography on subjective well-being as found by at least three different research studies.

Zuckerman asserted that experience seeking does not decline with age.

According to studies conducted in Africa on ethnic group comparisons of locus of control,native Africans,like American-born Blacks in general,scored higher in external locus of control than did American-born _____.

In the context of Seligman's study of learned helplessness in dogs,which of the following statements is true?

According to a research in Germany in 2010,it was found the most important choices among life goals relating directly to happiness included the characteristics of one's partner,a healthy lifestyle:

In Roberti's 2004 study,high scores on the SSS were positively correlated with the openness to experience and the agreeableness dimensions of the five-factor model of personality.

Positive psychology was advanced in the late 1990s by Zuckerman during his term as president of the American Psychological Association.

Pro-social risk takers,such as police officers and firefighters,had significantly _____ sensation seeking scores than anti-social risk takers,such as drug addicts and criminals.