The Work and Family Schedules of the Overwhelming Majority of Early

question 24

Multiple Choice

The work and family schedules of the overwhelming majority of early American colonists were set by

• A) the cycles of the season and the sun.
• B) the demands of commercial merchant employers
• C) the distinctive laws of each American colony.
• D) the mothers and wives of American colonial fathers and husbands.
• E) None of these are corect.

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Definitions:

Repression

Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious.

Displacement

Diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target.

Learned Helplessness

Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.

Pessimistic Explanatory Style

A tendency to explain negative events as being pervasive, permanent, and personal.