Chapter 15

Question 1

positive psychology

Answer 1

seeks to articulate the vision of good life and it uses emperical methods to understand what makes life worth living

Question 2

self-actualization

Answer 2

it is a process of leaving behind timidity, defensiveness and a depdence on others is paired with moving toward the courage to create, to view life realisticcally and to achieve autonomous self-regulation

Question 3

actualizing tendency

Answer 3

was innate, a continual prescence that quietly guides the individual toward genetically determinded potentials

Question 4

Rogers (1959)

Answer 4

conditions of which children begin to learn which of their behaviour and personal characteristics are judged as either positive and worthy of acceptance of negative and worthy of rejection.

Question 5

unconditional positive regard

Answer 5

a child has no need to internalize societal conditions of worth

Question 6

conditional positive regard

Answer 6

ie. parents wish their children to be

then the child’s behaviour and development continues to be catalyzed by acutlization tendency

Question 7

full functioning individuals

Answer 7

the individual lives in close and confident relationships to the organismic values process, trusting the inner direction. Emergence, acceptance and the expression of a motive

Question 8

validation seeking

Answer 8

valuing oneself via societal conditions of worth leads to people into processes of this. Who need the approval l of others to feel good about themselves

Question 9

growth-seeking individuals

Answer 9

center their personal strivings around learning, improving and reaching their personal potential

Question 10

happiness

Answer 10

a subjective state of being mentally well

Question 11

eudiomanic well-being

Answer 11

is seeking out challenges, exerting effort, being fully engaged and experincing the flow in what one’s doing, acting on one’s true values and being alive and authentic
two key antecendents are :
1. the pursuit of ones life pursuits (personal growth)
2. the quality of one’s close relationships

Question 12

Optimism

Answer 12

expecting positive future events in one’s life. Tend to believe that their actions will lead to positive outcome

Question 13

Meaning

Answer 13

a need of discovery and accomplishments that was fundamental to humanity as was hunger. A meaningful life is one with purpose and signifiance.

Question 14

positivity

Answer 14

represents positive emotions in life: joy,gratitude,sernity,interest,hope,pride,amusement,insperation,awe and love

Question 15

mindfullness

Answer 15

is an open receptive awareness of consciousness in which a person is not at all defensive against what is taking places in one’s mind at the present moment. Lessens people’s defensive tendencies.

Question 16

Cultivating hope

Answer 16

threefold capacity to conceptualize a goal t seek, generate a specfic strategy to attain that goal and grow the confidence needed to sustain the effort necessary to attain that goal

Question 17

Cultivating compassion

Answer 17

recognizing that compassion is a prosocial emotion. Compassion is positively associated with social connectedneess and kindness, which is negatively assoicated with stress