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Questions 1: Positive Psychology: A Primer (and Challenge)
Questions 2: Positive Psychology as an Emerging Construct in Disability Management
Questions 3: Positive Outcomes Following Physical Disability
Questions 4: Gratitude for the Disability Manager
Questions 5: Disability Management Parallels Positive Psychology in Work Organizations

 
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Questions based on the article, “Positive Psychology: A Primer (and Challenge)”

1. What is said to be a key to creative productivity and problem solving?:

Resilience
Flow
Gratitude
Hope

2. “Knowledge hard fought for, and then used for good” relates to which of the following virtues?:

Justice
Humanity
Courage
Wisdom & Knowledge

3. ________ is the will to accomplish goals even in the face of adversity, be it an internal or external factor:

Fairness
Vitality
Courage
Integrity

4. Character strengths of which virtues reflect altruistic or “prosocial” behavior?:

Humanity
Courage
Justice
Transcendence

5. Strengths of justice thrive on what type of relationship?:

One-to-one.
Familial.
Universal
One-to-many.

6. The strength of humor is found in the virtue of Transcendence.

True
False

7. Protecting us from excess, which virtue includes such strengths as humility and modesty and forgiveness and mercy?:

   Temperance
   Justice
   Wisdom & Knowledge
   Courage

8. “What is transcendent does need to be sacred but does not need to be divine.”

   True
   False

9. The virtues discussed in this article are referred to as the:

   Six Virtues of Value
   Complete Six
   High Six
   None of the above

10. In essence, positive psychology is the study of human behaviors that lead to the:

    “Pursuit of happiness”
    “Good life”
    Development of flow
    Both A and B

     

Questions based on the article, “Positive Psychology as an Emerging Construct in Disability Management”

1. Which one of the following conducted research on the significant difference between traditional “Rehabilitation” and “Disability Management”?:

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Rochelle Habeck
Martin Seligman
Sigal G. Barsade

2. What is an excellent resource for assisting employees with disabilities?:

Gordon Training Institute
The U.S. Department of Labor
Yale School of Management
Job Accommodation Network

3. “A process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotion states and behavioral attitudes” is the definition of what concept?:

Flow
Work-life balance
Job Modification
Emotional contagion

4. What percent of a typical manager’s time is spent responding to conflict?:

35%
25%
45%
10%

5. What is the most important skill to help contain emotional contagion?:

Resolving all conflicts as soon as they arise
Creating a connection between work and family responsibilities
Teaching employees to achieve and maintain independence from “group think”
Understanding the concept of flow

6. Which of the following does Leadership Effectiveness Training not include regarding skill development?

   Emotional contagion
   Interpersonal communication
   Conflict resolution
   Problem Solving

7. The concept of “flow” was introduced by what positive psychologist?:

   Martin Seligman
   Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
   Sigal G. Barsade
   Rochelle Habeck

8. Which of the following would not induce a flow experience?:

   Finding the activity rewarding
   Concentrating and focusing
   Having tentative goals
   Balancing ability level and challenge

9. Employees seek out positive emotion and work-life balance in work environments.:

   True
   False

10. An example of job modification is:

    Eliminating unessential lifting.
    Changing hours.
    Relocating a job within a particular work environment.
    All of the above

     

 Questions based on the article, “Positive Outcomes Following Physical Disability”

1. Who completed the seminal work in promoting pro-active resilience?:

Sandi Aitken
Mary A. Steinhardt, Ed.D
John Morgan
Jasen Walker, Ed.D

2. Social and esteem are levels in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

True
False

3. Most frequently, employees who lack resilience manifest that deficit after they:

Have been fired
Have been demoted
Have been injured
None of the above

4. What term signifies how people explain causality (how and why things happen) to others?

Locus of Control
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Resilience
Explanatory (Attributional) Style

5. What fundamental principle is the psychological construct through which individuals place responsibility, choice, and control of events in their lives?

Self-Actualization
Attribution Theory
Locus of Control
Resilience

6. What is generally considered as going beyond coping or adapting to actually becoming stronger as a result of besting a stressful occurrence?:

   Resilience
   Gratitude.
   Positive Psychology
   Optimism

7. What incremental process was designed to involve the worker with appropriately sequenced activities to strengthen both the physical and psychological needs of the injured worker?

   Light duty assignments
   Teaching resilience
   Transition to work
   Disability management

8. Which of the following is not a resilient characteristic?:

   Manifesting self-discipline
   Viewing the world in a pessimistic and negative way
   Taking responsibility for actions
   Solving problems and making decisions

9. Fill in the blank: Those with some measure of _________ locus of control report less distress.

   Internal.
   Positive
   External
   Negative

10. What was the traditional method of dealing with injured employees?:

    To outsource them
    To fire them
    To provide them with “light-duty” assignments
    Both A and C

Questions based on the article, “Gratitude for the Disability Manager”

1. The proactive organizational system of preventing and reducing costly effects of workplace disability is the definition of:

Transformational Leadership
Gratitude
Disability Management
Emotional contagion

2. According to Erickson, gratitude psychologically is felt as a sense of wonder, thankfulness, and appreciation for life.

True.
False.

3. What are the twin strategies of disability management?:

Creating organization and keeping people healthy
Preventing injuries and minimizing their disabling effects through disability management interventions
Preventing injuries and justifying the time and expense of disability management programs
None of the above

4. What is the primary developmental task of late adolescence and young adulthood?:

Learning empathy
Generativity
Being gracious
Identity

5. What is Naikan?:

  A Buddhist sect in Japan
An experience felt through the concept of flow.
A form of personal moral development
An outdated form of gratitude

6. Who offered a four-step behavioral-cognitive approach for learning gratitude?

   Miller
   Ishin
   Smith
   Erickson

7.  In addition to their individual roles and responsibilities, Disability Managers also function as:

   Educators
   Rehabilitation Professionals
   Both of the above
   None of the above

8. A fundamental and essential attitude for Disability Managers to nurture in themselves and others is:

   Gratitude
   Identity
   Flow
   Persistence

9. Who wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which includes the importance of gratitude in the maintenance of a successful commercial society?

   Emmons & Shelton.
   Tolstoy
   Smith
   Harpham

10. What is the basis for experiencing and hopefully expressing gratitude?

    Integrating human resource strategies into the workplace
    Extending bold civil rights traditions from public to private sectors
    Having personal and professional experience with resilience
    Awareness that all of us are only temporarily able

Questions based on the article, “Disability Management Parallels Positive Psychology in Work Organizations”

According to the article: 

1. Which of the following issues could be addressed in an Employee Wellness Program?:

Nutrition
Smoking Cessation
Exercise
All of the above

2. Psychologists discovered that among life’s virtues was:

  A safe family
Meaningful work
Fulfilled personal goals
None of the above

3. What landmark concept to private sector employers was introduced by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?:

Sound Hiring Practices
Worker Safety
Employee Wellness
Essential Job Functions

4. The Job Description is based solely on the results of the:

  Job analysis
Employee’s abilities and skills
Original essential functions
None of the above

5. The ADA Amendments of 2008 were intended to:

  Implement worker safety programs
Strengthen the definition of disability
Mandate essential functions
Enforce sound hiring practices

6. Disability Management Programs target human factors in the workplace:

   true
   false

7. Daniel Dana is a pioneer in a conflict resolution method known as Managerial Mediation.:

   True
   False

8. Transformational leadership does not include:

   Keeping ideas hidden
   Encouraging initiative.
   Delegating responsibilities
   Taking calculated risks

9. In what year did the American Psychological Association (APA) refocus its mission to study the “positive” human virtues and characteristics that lead to the “good life”?

   1990
   1998
   2000
   1988

10. Disability Management is most effective when it:

    Includes transformational leadership
    Is utilized by every company
    Becomes part of the organizational culture
    Follows the principles of positive psychology

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