PSYCH MISC QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

1. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states in the Appendix at the end of Flow in “About the Book,” that “By random mutations, some individuals must have developed a nervous system in which the discovery of novelty stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain” (6). In other words, creativity may have been developed in human beings as a biological imperative to enable us to feel pleasure when we discover something new. He believes that creativity makes us better-adapted to a constantly-changing environment. Please describe a time in your life when you were confronted with something new or a changing environment. Did it give you pleasure, as Csikszentmihaly suggests, or did it make you uncomfortable or cause stress? Or both? Please explain in a few sentences. Did anything good come out of the situation (regardless of the way you felt about it)? -A time when I was confronted by a changing environment was when I went to military school. At first it was uncomfortable due to the different schedule I was on also people were yelling at all the time. After a month I became accustomed to this and being there did start to make me happy. At the end I became a more disciplined individual. What four types of food does Turner suggest we eliminate? -Kell suggest we eliminate refined food products as well as high sugar and processed foods Why should cancer patient