If you expect good things to happen to you, then you are a(n):
a. pessimist.
c. idealist.
b. realist.
d. optimist.
ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Seligman expanded his work on learned helplessness to encompass the factor of optimism versus pessimism. Put simply, optimists are people who expect good things to happen to them; pessimists are people who expect bad things to happen to them.
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