Chapter 12: Happiness and the Positive Emotions Flashcards

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Three Dimensions of Good Life

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a happy life
a meaningful life
a psychologically rich life

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Resilience

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  • 55%-85% are in this category
    people who aren’t distressed and find meaning through learning and wisdom after their traumatic experience(s)
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Trauma Responses (3)

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Resilience
Delayed
Recovering

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Resilience Paradox

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it is so difficult to measure, and predictions of resilience are weakly correlated with actual outcomes, but you can tag different resilience aspects in a person

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Flexibility sequence (3)

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  1. Context sensitivity: evaluate (context)
  2. Repertoire: select regulatory strategy
  3. Feedback monitoring: monitor decide whether to stop, maintain, adjust, or select another regulatory strategy
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Yumbo Minsky

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happiness interventions are used and though they work, doing them too often doesn’t because people easily habituate, especially to positive emotions

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Enthusiasm

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pleasure from anticipating a reward
- nucleus accumbens is activated when given an unexpected reward, and decreased when expected reward doesn’t appear
- more local focus

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Contentment

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beta endorphins release dopamine, which slows down behaviour
- perhaps helps with memory
- hypothalamus responsible for the satiation response to eating
- more heuristic dependency

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Pride

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a person’s emotional response to his/her achievement or being admired by people

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Authentic pride

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based on the accurate assessment of one’s accomplishments/worth of admiration

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Hubristic pride

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based on the idea that someone is inherently better than others and their ability isn’t attributed to effort

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Attitude

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combination of beliefs, feelings, and behaviour directed toward someone, something, or a category
- longer lasting than an emotion

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Russell et al’s Study

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love is a prototype!
- love fits into certain contexts and sentences but others

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Prototypical love examples

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parent and child
romantic relationships
close friends
family members

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Bowlby’s 3 Biological Foundations for Bonding within Families

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Attachment
Sex
Caregiving

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Cognitive shift

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a necessary component of amusement; a shift away from perceived target/meaning to thinking about it from another perspective
- background does matter

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Awe

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elicited by oneself feeling small in comparison (to something), or finding something difficult to comprehend
- facilitates cognitive accommodation

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Cognitive accommodation

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taking in an environment and taking good note of it instead of operating on one’s usually narrow lens
- need for cognitive closure and certainty

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Hope

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a high agency in a challenging situation and generating plans to achieve what one has set out to do

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Optimism

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an expectation that mostly good things will happen
- unrealistic optimism is very high in the us
- tend to perceive a higher level of agency