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Ch 1-4 Flashcards

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Disease model

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Focus is on treating illness and not building strengths

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SWB

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Assessing a persons life satisfaction and the frequency of positive and negative emotional experiences

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The engaged life

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Active involvement like work and leisure and relationships with others that express our talents and strengths and that give us meaning and purpose to our lives

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The meaningful life

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Going beyond our own self interests and preoccupations. A deeper meaning of happiness. Something larger than yourself.

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The pleasant life

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Understanding the determinants of happiness as a desired state. The good life. What makes a person happy or fulfilled.

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Misery index

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Info about how many people are suffering from significant problems that happen the quality of their lives

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National stats are incomplete for SWB because

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They lack positive functioning and strengths

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The peak end rule

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Suggests people’s emotions are influenced by the intensity and how long the experience lasts

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Experience sample methods

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Measures that provide a day in the life view of emotions and events as they happen

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Day reconstruction method

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Combines the accuracy of real time measures with the efficacy of the daily diaries or recordings used

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Global measures

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Reflect stable personality characteristics

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12
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Hedonic happiness asks

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If people are happy

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Eudaimonic happiness asks

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Why people are happy

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Self determination theory states

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Well being and happiness come from 3 psychological needs; autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

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The broaden and build theory states

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Positive emotions build physical psychological and social resources

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16
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The three components of well being are

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Life satisfaction positive affect and negative affect

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Autonomy means

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Freely chosen activities and self determined life of central importance. Need freedom of action.

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Competence means

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Effectiveness, achievement and pride needed for success

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Life satisfaction

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Global judgement of ones life

20
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Positive affect

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Experiencing Positive emotions and moods

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Problem focused coping is

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A psychological resource that eliminates stress at the source

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Emotion focused coping is

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A psychological resource that includes one trying to change their own emotions and reduce responses to stress

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Proactive coping

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A psychological resource that tries to prevent stress at source

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Positive reappraisal

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Reframing problems in a positive light

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The buffering hypothesis

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A social resource that’s states people who share burdens and have social support reduce stress

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Direct effect hypothesis

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Social resource that states social support is independent from ones stress level

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Flourishing

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Loss of ones self in an action

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Savoring

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Capacity to attend and appreciate positive experiences in life

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Languishing

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Feelings of emptiness and low zest for life

30
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General theory of positivity

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Predicts the divide between human flourishing and languishing among people

31
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Post traumatic growth

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Positive growth and enhancement after trauma

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The nun study by Danner, Snowdon, & Friesen tested to see

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If cheerful people lived longer than gloomy people

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Meaning making

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A person interprets the event and what it can signify

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Negative bias

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Putting all attention to negative when there are more positives

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Ryff and singer

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Recovery or improvement in mental or physical health followed from challenges

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Bonnano

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Maintain relatively stable and healthy levels of physical psychological functioning despite trauma

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Masten

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Class of phenomenon characterized by good outcomes despite serious threats to adaptation or development. Also known as ordinary magic

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Tedeschi park and Calhoun

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Positive outcomes arise from trauma PTG

39
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Kahneman

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The peak end wipe and the intensity of the experience. Not how long it lasts

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