Question

Your text authors note that it is important to place consideration of the specific meaning of a good life in the context of

	a.	personality and genetic differences
	b.	differences in values and religious orientation.
	c.	different cultures and stages of lifespan development.
	d.	life events and availability of resources and opportunities.

According to your textbook authors, what is “new” and unique about positive psychology is that it has

	a.	helped clarify the relative independence of the “good” and the “bad.”
	b.	shown the valuable lessons that can be learned from tragedy.
	c.	shown the health and happiness benefits of a positive outlook.
	d.	rejected psychology’s emphasis on the negative and replaced it with an emphasis on the positive.

Relationship-enhancing and distress-maintaining attributions describe two major differences in how close relationship partners

	a.	respond to the distress of their partner.
	b.	communicate the need to talk about a relationship problem.
	c.	explain their own perceived role in improving the relationship.
	d.	explain the transgressions and faults of their partner.

The Signature Strengths Questionnaire was developed by Values in Action Project (VIA) researchers to measure 24 strengths of character. This questionnaire has been taken by over 350,000 people in 50 different countries. Analysis of character strengths profiles suggest that

	a.	people in widely different cultures share a common understanding of character strengths.
	b.	the meaning of character strengths varies widely across different cultures.
	c.	the Signature Strengths Questionnaire contains a substantial Western value bias.
	d.	gender, age, and social class have a substantial influence on people’s understanding of character strengths.

Answer 1

• Answer-explain their own perceived role in improving the relationship and explain the transgressions and faults of their partner.
• Relationship-enhancing attributions occur when people place more responsibility on their partners for their positive behaviors and less responsibility on their partners for their negative behaviors.
• Distress-maintaining attributions show just the opposite pattern. These types of attributions occur when people place responsibility on their partners for their bad behaviors, but interpret their partner's positive behaviors in a more negative light
• Happy people make attributions for their partners' behavior that are relationship enhancing.Unhappy
  people make distress-maintaining attributions that regard a partner's negative actions as deliberate and routine and positive behavior as unintended and accidental.
• The Signature Strengths Questionnaire was developed by Values in Action Project (VIA) researchers to measure 24 strengths of character. This questionnaire has been taken by over 350,000 people in 50 different countries. Analysis of character strengths profiles suggest that people in widely different cultures share a common understanding of character strengths.
• Character strengths and virtues have been determined to be universal across cultures, nations,
  and belief systems.Character strengths are substantially stable, universal personality traits that manifest through thinking (cognition), feeling (affect), willing (conation or volition), and action (behavior). They are morally valued and are beneficial to oneself and others. These positive psychological characteristics are considered to be the basic building blocks of human goodness and human flourishing.
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