Unit 3 Text A Overview Psychology Two Ways of Looking at Life 16.The mother leaves a message with the pediatrician's answering service asking for an early appointment Monday.She spends the weekend (in) doing her exercises,reading,and trying to calm her husband. 17.The pediatrician's tests are reassuring,but the father's spirits remain low.Not until a week later, when the baby shows her first startle,to the backfire of a passing truck,does he begin to recover and enjoy his new daughter again
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 16. The mother leaves a message with the pediatrician’s answering service asking for an early appointment Monday. She spends the weekend (in) doing her exercises, reading, and trying to calm her husband. 17. The pediatrician’s tests are reassuring, but the father’s spirits remain low. Not until a week later, when the baby shows her first startle, to the backfire of a passing truck, does he begin to recover and enjoy his new daughter again. Unit 3 Psychology
Unit 3 Text A Overview Psychology Two Ways of Looking at Life 18.This father and mother have two different ways of looking at the world.Whenever something bad happens to him-a tax audit,a marital squabble,even a frown from his employer-he imagines the worst: bankruptcy and jail,divorce,dismissal.He is prone to depression;he has long bouts of listlessness;his health suffers.She,on the other hand,sees bad events in their least threatening light.To her,they are temporary and surmountable,challenges to be overcome.After a_reversal,she comes back quickly, soon regaining her energy.Her health is excellent
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 18. This father and mother have two different ways of looking at the world. Whenever something bad happens to him-a tax audit, a marital squabble, even a frown from his employer-he imagines the worst: bankruptcy and jail, divorce, dismissal. He is prone to depression; he has long bouts of listlessness; his health suffers. She, on the other hand, sees bad events in their least threatening light. To her, they are temporary and surmountable, challenges to be overcome. After a reversal, she comes back quickly, soon regaining her energy. Her health is excellent. Unit 3 Psychology
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life L9.The optimists and the pessimists:I have been studying them for the past 25years.The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time,will undermine everything they do,and are their own fault.The optimists,when confronted with the same hard knocks of this world,think about misfortune in the opposite way.They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback,that its causes are confined to this one case.The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances,bade luck,or other people brought it about.Such people are unfazed by defeat.Confronted by a bad situation,they perceive it as a challenge and try harder
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 19. The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past 25years.The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, when confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bade luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder. Unit 3 Psychology
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 20.These two habits of thinking about causes have consequences.Literally hundreds of studies show that pessimists give up more easily and get depressed more often.These experiments also show that optimists do much better in school and college,at work and on the playing field.They regularly exceed the predictions of aptitude tests.When optimists run for office,they are more apt to be elected than pessimists are.Their health is unusually good.They age well,much freer than most of us from the usual physical ills of middle age.Evidence suggests they may even live longer
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 20.These two habits of thinking about causes have consequences. Literally hundreds of studies show that pessimists give up more easily and get depressed more often. These experiments also show that optimists do much better in school and college, at work and on the playing field. They regularly exceed the predictions of aptitude tests. When optimists run for office, they are more apt to be elected than pessimists are. Their health is unusually good. They age well, much freer than most of us from the usual physical ills of middle age. Evidence suggeststhey may even live longer. Unit 3 Psychology
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 21.I have seen that,in tests of hundreds of thousands of people,a surprisingly large number will be found to be deep-dyed pessimists and another large portion will have serious,debilitating tendencies toward pessimism.I have learned that it is not always easy to know if you are a pessimist,and that far more people than realize it are living in this shadow.Tests reveal traces of pessimism in the speech of people who would never think of themselves as pessimists;they also show that these traces are sensed by others,who react negatively to the speakers
Text A Overview Two Ways of Looking at Life 21. I have seen that, in tests of hundreds of thousands of people, a surprisingly large number will be found to be deep-dyed pessimists and another large portion will have serious, debilitating tendencies toward pessimism. I have learned that it is not always easy to know if you are a pessimist, and that far more people than realize it are living in this shadow. Tests reveal traces of pessimism in the speech of people who would never think of themselves as pessimists; they also show that these traces are sensed by others, who react negatively to the speakers. Unit 3 Psychology