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QUESTION 1

1.Which of these people did the authors indicate as someone who reiterated that hope, faith, and love are powerful?

	a.	Karl Menninger
	b.	Aristotle
	c.	Martin Luther King, Jr.
	d.	John F. Kennedy

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QUESTION 2

1.If a therapist wanted to refer to a classification of strengths or positive outcomes, what would be the best option?

	a.	the international classification of diseases
	b.	the search institute’s 40 developmental assets
	c.	the mental measurements yearbook
	d.	the diagnostic and statistical manual

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QUESTION 3

1.According to Clifton, what conditions must be in place for talent to manifest itself?

	a.	It must be fostered through a combination of harsh and easy experiences.
	b.	Normal, healthy development and successful experiences in childhood and adolescence.
	c.	Financial security to allow for more opportunities to build talent.
	d.	Someone must be born with talents, as it is part of their genetics.

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QUESTION 4

1.How did Clifton derive the themes of talent listed in the Gallup classification system?

	a.	through empirically based, semi-structured interviews
	b.	through qualitative, highly structured interviews
	c.	by polling individuals in semi-structured focus groups
	d.	by interviewing a random sample of college students

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QUESTION 5

1.Which of the following outcomes has a strong relationship with strengths-based development of employees?

	a.	increased promotions
	b.	higher income
	c.	greater performance
	d.	decreased conflict

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QUESTION 6

1.Which of these best fits the reason why the authors of the VIA-IS chose to organize strengths under six overarching virtues?

	a.	The strengths are not observable on their own, but rather as a whole.
	b.	to understand each virtue’s prevalence within six ethnic groups
	c.	The virtues are seen cross-culturally and throughout time.
	d.	to eliminate the strengths that fit outside of those virtues

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QUESTION 7

1.The question “What protects children from today’s problems?” was the inspiration for which measure?

	a.	the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets
	b.	the International Database of Strengths
	c.	the VIA Classification of Strengths
	d.	Gallup’s Clifton’s StrengthsFinder

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QUESTION 8

1.How do the psychometric properties of the Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors differ from the other measures discussed in this chapter?

	a.	There is strong test–retest reliability but weak construct validity.
	b.	The properties are noted to be the strongest of the measures.
	c.	There is little public information about the properties.
	d.	They have strong internal consistency.

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QUESTION 9

1.In the Search Institute’s Developmental Asset Scale, internal assets are come from young people’s ______.

	a.	family environment
	b.	personal characteristics and behaviors
	c.	interactions with people and institutions
	d.	biological endowment

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QUESTION 10

1.Which of the following best describes the importance of gathering data on status, such as race or ethnicity, within the country of origin?

	a.	The underprivileged group can better understand what strengths are necessary to become privileged.
	b.	It is useful for understanding which strengths are not beneficial to all people.
	c.	It would be the final step in establishing strengths based on privileged groups.
	d.	There needs to be consideration of differences between privileged and underprivileged groups.

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QUESTION 11

1.What do the authors indicate is needed to have a more competent cultural understanding of strengths?

	a.	new measures of strengths that are nonverbal
	b.	researchers from different countries and cultures
	c.	assimilation for those who are not part of the dominant culture
	d.	studies on racial and ethnic minorities

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QUESTION 12

1.Which of these is a problem that the authors mentioned a researcher may encounter when administering a Likert-type scale to members of certain cultures?

	a.	The numbers on the scale may be viewed as magnitudes instead of ordinal.
	b.	The members may try to please the researchers by choosing the highest values on the scale.
	c.	They might not be familiar with such a scale.
	d.	They may not choose responses on the extremes of the scale.

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QUESTION 13

1.Researchers have been shown to mistakenly believe that because their measure has linguistic equivalence it also has ______.

	a.	subcultural equivalence
	b.	metric equivalence
	c.	conceptual equivalence
	d.	theoretical equivalence

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QUESTION 14

1.What does the use of strengths predict on an individual basis?

	a.	the amount of value placed on personal items
	b.	who someone gets along with
	c.	changes and variance in subjective well-being
	d.	knowledge of similar strengths in others

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QUESTION 15

1.Which of these is a component of social well-being?

	a.	integration
	b.	self-acceptance
	c.	personal growth
	d.	autonomy

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QUESTION 16

1.Which of the following is a dimension of psychological well-being?

	a.	autonomy
	b.	coherence
	c.	acceptance
	d.	integration

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QUESTION 17

1.What is the difference in an individual that is said to be flourishing and an individual that is said to be languishing?

	a.	The languishing individual has varying levels of well-being depending on their life circumstances, and the flourishing individual has high levels.
	b.	The flourishing individual has at least one high and one low level, and the languishing individual has low levels.
	c.	The languishing individual has high levels of well-being, and the flourishing individual has one high level and two low levels.
	d.	The flourishing individual has high levels of well-being, and the languishing individual has low levels.

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QUESTION 18

1.Regarding well-being, what would be the result of combining the subjective and objective views toward well-being?

	a.	a new concept of well-being
	b.	choosing one as the dominant view
	c.	a more complete portrayal of mental health
	d.	a pseudoscientific view of well-being

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QUESTION 19

1.What is the type of love called agape?

	a.	A platonic love which includes friends and acquaintances.
	b.	A friendly love that fosters camaraderie.
	c.	A spiritual love that signifies selflessness and altruism.
	d.	A romantic love that includes passion and intimacy.

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QUESTION 20

1.The authors suggest that developmental gains from early in school or work could be linked to ______.

	a.	increased income
	b.	less disagreements
	c.	civic contributions
	d.	higher grades

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1. A.
Karl Menninger
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The international classification of diseases
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Normal, healthy development and successful e...