What Good are Positive Emotions? -Fredrickson

Question 1

Experiences of __________are central to human nature and contribute richly to the quality of people’s lives.

Answer 1

positive emotions

Question 2

Relative to negative emotions, positive emotions are ______ in number and rather diffuse.

Answer 2

few

Question 3

Specific positive emotions appear to have no unique signal value, but instead all share the ____________.

Answer 3

Duchenne smile

Question 4

the appraisal processes that initiate emotions also seem to be______________for positive emotions than for negative emotions.

Answer 4

less differentiated

Question 5

There are more negative than positive emotions because?

Answer 5

there are more different kinds of threats than opportunities

Question 6

_______ may in fact provide some important solutions to the problems negative emotions generate.

Answer 6

positive emotions

Question 7

the specific action tendencies named for positive emotions are not as nearly as ________ as those named for negative emotions.

Answer 7

specific

Question 8

although positive emotions do often produce urges to act, they appear to be less prescriptive than negative emotions about which particular actions should be taken

Answer 8

nonspecific action tendencies

Question 9

__________ broaden a person’s momentary thought - action repertoire. Accordingly, experiences of certain ___________ prompt individuals to discard time-tested or automatic behavioral scripts and to pursue novel, creative, and often unscripted paths of thought and action.

Answer 9

positive emotions

Question 10

What is the major theme of this article?

Answer 10

Appraisals of a situation, thought action repertoire, and an evolutionary standpoint

Question 11

The existing evidence is consistent with the view that traits and situations that promote positive emotions broaden individuals’ ___________scope, allowing them to see both the forest and the trees

Answer 11

attentional

Question 12

People experiencing positive affect were more _______categorizers than those in other emotional states, forming fewer categories when focusing on similarities and more categories when focusing on differences.

Answer 12

flexible

Question 13

positive affect facilitates ________ responding

Answer 13

creative

Question 14

________broaden the scoe of attention, thinking, and action

Answer 14

positive emotions

Question 15

One effect of positive emotions may be to loosen the hold that negative emotions gain on an individual’s mind and body by dismantling or undoing the psychological and physiological preparation for specific action

Answer 15

undoing effect of positive emotions