Chapter 16 Key Terms Flashcards
Positive psychology
is a social and intellectual movement within the discipline of psychology that focuses on human strengths and how people can flourish and be
successful
Moods
global, pervasive responses to
experiences
Emotions
are powerful, largely uncontrollable feelings, accompanied by
physiological changes
Positive emotions
consist of pleasant
responses to events that promote connections with others, including subjective states like happiness, joy, euphoria, gratitude, or
contentment
Negative emotions
consist of unpleasant
responses to potential threats or dangers, including subjective states like sadness,
disgust, anger, guilt, and fear
undoing hypothesis
positive
emotions aid the mind and the body by recovering a sense of balance and flexibility following an episode experiencing negative
emotion
Flow
the state of being wherein a person
becomes fully involved and engage in the present time by some interesting, challenging,
and intrinsically rewarding activity
Mindfulness
to a cultivated
perspective wherein people are sensitive to
context and focused on the present
Positive individual traits
refer to dispositional
qualities that account for why some people are happier and psychologically healthier than other
people
Hope
people’s expectations that their goals
can be achieved in the future
Agency
a person’s judgment that his
or her goals can be achieved
Pathways
realistic roadmaps to
achieving the goal
Resilience
a person’s ability to recover
and often prosper following some consequential
life event
post-traumatic
growth,
“enhanced personal strength”
following trauma.
Gratitude
entails recognizing and
concentrating on the good tings in one’s life and being thankful for them
