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Which scientific finding related to cooperation is INACCURATE? - ✔✔Kids said they enjoyed
competing one-on-one more than playing on cooperative teams
According to Aaron Lazare, which of the four parts of an "effective apology" is most often neglected? -
✔✔Acknowledgement of the offense
Which of the following statements best characterizes Matt Killingsworth's findings on the relationship
between happiness and mind-wandering? - ✔✔People reported greater happiness when they were
not mind-wandering compared to when they were mind-wandering
Which of the following is NOT one of the three core elements of mindfulness described by Shauna
Shapiro? - ✔✔Destination
Mindfulness - ✔✔The non-judgemental, moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts,
feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. Our thoughts tune into what we're
sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining in the future.
Meditation - ✔✔Refers to a wide range of practices that involve training the mind to achieve
particular states of consciousness. Closely related to mindfulness.
Mazimizers - ✔✔People who try to squeeze the greatest amount of benefit and pleasure out of
every choice or opportunity.
, Satisficers - ✔✔People who feel content with choices as long as they pass a basic threshold of
acceptability.
Optimism - ✔✔The expectation that you would have that the future is socially desirable, good,
and pleasurable.
Self-Compassion - ✔✔The practice of quieting the inner critic, replacing it with a voice of
support, understanding, and care for one's self.
Flow - ✔✔Intrinsically rewarding state of mind that comes when we're intensely engaged in an activity.
Scientific evidence for neuroplasticity suggests that people can train their minds for happiness. Which of
the following can be referred to as a "toxic thought" - a mental habit that gets in the way of happiness? -
✔✔-
Which of the following are the key components of self-compassion, a mental habit of happiness
formulated by Kristin Neff? - ✔✔-
Which of the following characterize an experience of "flow"? - ✔✔-
Christine Carter discusses serval mental habits that contribute to "the overwhelm", a state of mind that
gets in the way of happiness. Which of the following strategies does she suggest can reduce feelings of
"overwhelm"? - ✔✔-
Hedonism - ✔✔Happiness in sensory pleasures, not only in external things
Eudaimonia - ✔✔Happiness in the full development of potential, completed with effort, struggle,
and possibility of pain
Happiness before the 17th/18th centuries - ✔✔Happiness was the result of luck or a divine, god
given gift. The outcome of moral behavior.
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