Module 3 Quiz :Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science (Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization) Answers 2026

Question 1

Strong pessimists have higher risk to:

✅ 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, not directly with cancer or dementia.

Question 2

Strategies that increase creativity throughout life (Select 3)

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

Explanation:
Creativity is supported by perspective-taking, future thinking, and exposure to stories (fiction).

Question 3

Prospection-based explanation of depression

❌ Depression is a disorder of the past
❌ Depression is a disorder of the present
❌ Mindfulness issue only
❌ All of the above
✅ Depression is a disorder of the future

Explanation:
Prospection research suggests depression is linked to impaired future thinking.

Question 4

Positive health research indicates (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:
Mind and body influence each other bi-directionally.

Question 5

Error in traditional psychology according to prospection

✅ Belief that understanding the past predicts the future
❌ Clear goals cause well-being
❌ Present behavior predicts future behavior
❌ Asking about future predicts past

Explanation:
Prospection argues humans are future-oriented, not past-driven.

Question 6

Best description of “positive health”

❌ Feeling good about health
❌ Tested positive for illness
❌ Lacking illness or injury
✅ Presence of health assets

Explanation:
Positive health focuses on strengths and capacities, not just absence of disease.

Question 7

Creativity = originality +

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

Explanation:
Creativity requires ideas to be both original and useful.

Question 8

Implication of Positive Health for medicine

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

Explanation:
Positive Health broadens medicine beyond treatment to prevention and promotion.

Question 9

Selective Attention Test shows perception (Select 2)

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

Explanation:
Perception is efficient but limited, leading to blind spots.

Question 10

Best description of humans based on default behavior

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

Explanation:
Humans are best described as future-oriented beings.

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