Module 3 Quiz :Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization (Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization) Answers 2026

Question 1

Strong pessimists have higher risk of:

✅ Developing cardiovascular disease
❌ Smoking a lot and getting lung cancer
❌ Early onset dementia
❌ None of the above

Explanation:
Research links pessimism with higher cardiovascular risk.

Question 2

Strategies that increase creativity throughout life (Select 3):

❌ Wearing bright colors
✅ Engaging in perspective taking
❌ Imagining and planning your personal future
❌ Studying imagination
✅ Reading fiction
❌ Developing good relationships
✅ Imagining and planning the futures of other people

Explanation:
Creativity is enhanced by perspective taking, fiction reading, and imagining others’ futures.

Question 3

Prospection explains depression as:

❌ Disorder of the past
❌ All of the above
❌ Disorder of the present
✅ Disorder of the future

Explanation:
Prospection theory views depression as difficulty imagining a positive future.

Question 4

Positive health research shows (Select 2):

✅ A healthy body benefits a healthy mind
❌ Good health leads to good character
✅ A healthy mind benefits a healthy body
❌ Good character benefits positive health

Explanation:
Health is bi-directional between mind and body.

Question 5

Error in traditional psychology (Prospection):

✅ Belief that understanding the past predicts future behavior
❌ Well-being comes from future goals
❌ Present behavior predicts future behavior
❌ Asking future plans reveals past actions

Explanation:
Traditional psychology overemphasized the past, underestimating future-oriented thinking.

Question 6

Positive health is best described as:

✅ The presence of health assets
❌ Feeling good about health
❌ Testing positive for illness
❌ Lacking illness or injury

Explanation:
Positive health focuses on assets, not just absence of disease.

Question 7

Creativity = originality +

❌ Openness to experience
❌ Producing a lot of work
✅ Meaningfulness / usefulness
❌ Consideration of future possibilities

Explanation:
Creativity requires ideas that are both original and useful.

Question 8

Implication of Positive Health:

❌ Health remediation
❌ Disease prevention
❌ Health promotion
✅ All of the above

Explanation:
Positive Health supports remediation, prevention, and promotion.

Question 9

Selective Attention Test shows perception (Select 2):

❌ Works perfectly
✅ Is faulty
✅ Is clever
❌ Is pessimistic

Explanation:
Perception is efficient but imperfect.

Question 10

Best description of humans (Seligman):

✅ Homo Prospectus
❌ Homo Sapiens
❌ Homo Recordare
❌ Homo Percepticus

Explanation:
Humans are fundamentally future-oriented.

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