Chapter 16 Key Ideas Flashcards
Postive psychology identified in 1998 by positive psychologist
Martin Seligman
Positive Psychology pursues 3 main “legs” on which the field stands
Postive objective experiences, positive individual traits, positive institutions
historically negative emotions have been studied more then positive because
they are evolutionary significant, part of “fight or flight”, and there are alot
who developed the broadened-and-build model of positive emotions to explain how they benefit us
Barbara Fredrickson
who showed that joy increased participants though-action tendency
Fredrickson and Branigan
fredrickson developed the “undoing” hypothesis which posits that
positive emotions aid the mind and the body by recovering a sense of balance and flexibility following an episode experiencing negative emotion
according to _____ we find flow when engaged in activities that have the ideal balance of challenge and skill level
Csikszentmihalyi
when mindful we
resist the impulse to control uncertainty, less prone to self-evaluate, and are in a more flexible state of mind
mindfulness is discussed by
Ellen Langer
who argues that Hope: achieving future goals has two components
Rick Snyder
what are the two components of hope
agency and pathways
psychological consequence of gratitude
enhanced social connection, extended positive affect, feelings of joy and contentment
who believed that worked viewed their occupation in 3 ways: just a “job”, career, calling
Wrzensniewski
what two EWU professors practice positive psychology
Russel Kolts, Phil Watkins (wrote a book)
