Compared with Those Who Are Unhappy, Happy People Are ________

question 21

Multiple Choice

Compared with those who are unhappy, happy people are ________ socially connected and they are ________ tolerant of other people.

• A) more; less
• B) less; more
• C) more; more
• D) less; less

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Definitions:

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering problem-solving abilities.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Base-Rate Information

Statistical information about the relative frequency of events or characteristics within a given population.