Positive psychology is important because discovering what leads people to live more meaningful lives can translate to better strategies for managing mental illness, correcting negative behaviors, and increasing our happiness and productivity.

The 'disease model' or mental illness approach to psychology, which focuses on identifying what's wrong with people, in order to 'fix' them, has been challenged over the past two decades. Martin Seligman initiated the development of positive psychology in 1998.

This is a problem because the labels are being used for political not helpful reasons. There may be problems with concurrent validity in the diagnosis of mental health as there is a range of different diagnostic tools such as the DSM-V and ICD-10.

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Dolores could see the sock on the floor behind the clothes dryer. She straightened out a wire clothes hanger, made a hook on the

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Answer: Using operant conditioning terminology, straightening the wire hanger and poking it behind the dryer would be the operant and the retrieved sock would be the reinforcing stimulus.

Explanation:

Operant stimulus is when there is a result known as "three-term contingency." The behavior or action can result in an award or even a punishment depending on the occasion.

Reinforcing stimulus is when a certain behavior is performed and the response is strengthened or decreased depending on the action taken. In this case, the soc was retrieved because Dolores used the wire hanger. This could of been a decreased behavior is she had not of straightened the wire hanger and the sock was not retrieved.

The four types of reinforcing stimulus and operant stimulus are; extinction, negative, positive, and punishment.

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