When Individuals Mentally Compare Their Current Outcomes with More Favorable

question 24

Multiple Choice

When individuals mentally compare their current outcomes with more favorable possible outcomes,they are engaging in ________.

• A)downward counterfactuals
• B)upward counterfactuals
• C)motivating counterfactuals
• D)dissatisfaction counterfactuals
• E)mitigating counterfactuals

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Definitions:

Poverty

A socioeconomic condition characterized by a lack of financial resources or means to meet basic life needs.

Developmental Psychopathology

A branch of psychology that studies the impact of biological, psychological, and social factors on the development of abnormal behavior patterns, emotions, and thoughts from infancy through adulthood.

Freudian Psychoanalytic

A therapeutic approach and theory of personality developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts, especially as they originate in childhood.

Mania

A state or episode of euphoria or frenzied activity in which people may have an exaggerated belief that the world is theirs for the taking.