Emotions Are Both Positive and Negative

question 71

Multiple Choice

Emotions are both positive and negative. Once people experience both types of emotion, they generally try to orchestrate their lives to maximize the experience of positive emotion and minimize the experience of negative emotion. This pattern illustrates that emotions provide ____.

• A) a feedback system
• B) enrichment to life
• C) the intent for criminal behavior
• D) a motive for creative behavior

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Definitions:

Sample Variance

A measure of variability within a sample dataset, calculated by taking the sum of squared differences from the mean divided by the number of observations minus one.

Standard Deviation

A statistics metric that quantifies the variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample, calculated by summing all the observations and dividing by the number of observations in the sample.

Range

The difference between the maximum and minimum values in a data set, indicating the spread of the data.