Despite Growing Up in an Environment Characterized by Unemployment, Violence

question 75

Multiple Choice

Despite growing up in an environment characterized by unemployment, violence, drug abuse, and poverty, Geoff finished college and is successful and thriving today. Geoff exhibits: 

• A)a Type B personality.
• B)optimism.
• C)hardiness.
• D)a Type D personality.

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Definitions:

First-Generation

Typically refers to individuals who are the first in their family to be born in a particular country or the first to achieve something, such as attending college.

Thorazine

A medication primarily used to treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, known generically as chlorpromazine.

Systematic Desensitization

In behavior therapy, a step-by-step process of desensitizing a client to a feared object or experience; it is based on the classical-conditioning procedure of counterconditioning.

Behavior Therapy

A form of therapy that applies principles of classical and operant conditioning to help people change self-defeating or problematic behaviors.