What issues arise in retrospective coping inventories? How do researchers attempt to get around these problems?
What will be an ideal response?
Retrospective coping inventories suffer from the same issues discussed in Chapter 4 regarding inventories that ask for recall of stressful life events. That is, people often have difficulty remembering events accurately and may have memory distortions or biases when answering. Some researchers have attempted to get around this problem by using momentary accounts of coping such as asking about the most stressful experience the research participant had that day or during another proximal interval, commonly 48 hours.
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Regarding the facial feedback hypothesis, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Researchers found that holding a pen crosswise between one's teeth caused one to frown and to feel sad. b. People whose faces have been injected with Botox showed less brain activity as they imitated angry faces, which may indicate that they feel less emotion due to the Botox. c. Reducing the facial feedback that contributes to one's sadness may help alleviate depression. d. When one contracts the facial muscles in the forehead, the felt emotion is surprise, while contracting the muscles in the brow results in the felt emotion of anger.