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Chapter ___: Positive Psychology Flashcards

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1
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3 parts to happiness

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Life satisfaction

Positive affect

Negative affect

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Life satisfaction

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Subjective judgment on how well your life is going

Using your own standards

Positively linked to SWB

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Positive affect

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Emotions like joy, happiness

Positively linked to SWB

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Negative affect

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Sadness, anger, anxiety

Negatively linked to SWB

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Affect

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Emotions

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External causes of happiness

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Money!

Need enough to meet basic needs

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Social resources

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We need people around us

Social relationships are neccecaey for happiness

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Society in which we live in

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External happiness

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Internal cues of happiness

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Temperament

Personality

Outlook

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Temperament

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Identical twins have similar levels

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Personality

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Extroverts experience more happiness

Those high in neuroticism experience more negative

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Outlook

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Cognitive appraisal of situation (glass half full)

Cultural influences of happiness

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Resilience

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Recover quickly from setbacks

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Hedonic treadmill

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Whatever we do, we are in the same place

Our emotions at first are different, then they get adjusted

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Consequences of happiness

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Health and longevity
Social relationships
Productivity
Citizenship

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Health and longevity

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When happy:

Stronger immune system
Less disease
Longer life

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Social relationship

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More stable and rewarding relationships

Better material and work outcomes

Receive and give supper to others

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Productivity

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Organizations more successful

Greater productivity

Higher earning

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Citizenship

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Happy, donate time and money

More likely to help others

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How to become happier

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See glass half full

Help others, Volenteer

Seek meaningful relationships

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Solomon asch study

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Line test for conformity

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Line test outcomes

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People would confirm to not stir the pot when wrong answered

On writing the answers would be right

Or if another person helped

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Conformity

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Change in behaviour that matches what others think or do

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When people conform, their

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Opinions, feelings, and behaviours move toward group norm

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Reasons for conformity

Normative influence

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Conforming because we won’t fit in or others might judge you

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Informational influence

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When we conform we want to be “right”, so we look at others

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Descriptive norms

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What we can observe other doing or what we think other do

People drinking when they aren’t

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Obedience

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A type of social influence or conformity, instructions from people of authority

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Attitude

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Positive or negative evaluation that may effect behaviour

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CAB

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Attitudes have cognitive, affective, and behavioural components

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Cognitive

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Knowledge about object

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Affective

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Feelings toward object

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Behavioural

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Predisposition to act toward object

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Advertisements

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Attempt to change your attitude, make you think, feel, or act toward something

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Persuasion

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Attitudes or beliefs influenced by a communication from another person

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Two types of persusion

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Central or systematic

Peripheral or heuristic

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Central or Systematic

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Proves by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason

Motivated to process messages with care and attention

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Peripheral or heuristic

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Attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeal to habit or emotion

Appears when we are unmotivated or unable to process messages with care and attention

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Cognitive dissonance

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Tension produced when people recognize inconsistency in their actions, attitudes, or beliefs

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3 ways to deal with cognitive dissonance

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Change your cognition or attitude

Add a justifying concept

Change your behaviour itself

41
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Blind spots

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Self serving bias

Cognitive fluency

Sunk cost fallacy

Confirmation bias

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Self serving bias

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Giving success to yourself but failure to others

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Cognitive fallacy

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Do or think things cause others do them

ie. skip school

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Sunk cost fallacy

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If you have already wait money, time, etc, it is better to leave instead of wasting more

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Confirmation bias

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Only search for evidence that supports you

“Sugar is bad”

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Social cognition

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Process by which people come to understand others

47
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The _______ is activated when we think about other people’s attributes

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Prefrontal cortex

48
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We make inferences about others based on:

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1) the catagories to which they belong

2) the things they do and say

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Stereotyping

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Process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the catagoires to which they belong

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Stereotype features

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Inaccurate, overused, self perpetuating, and automatic

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Where we learn stereotypes

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1) people that tell us things might not be accurate

2) our own conclusions about others may be biased

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Self perpetuating

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Life of its own, hard to get rid of

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Perpetual confirmation

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When observes perceive what they expect to perceive

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Tendency for people to cause what they expect to see (bad haircut)

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Subtyping

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Tendency for people who are faced with disconfimimg evidence to modify their stereotype rather than abandon

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Stereotyping happens ______

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Unconsciously

Training helps us stop it

57
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Groups

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Collections of people work something in common

We have a need to belong

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The need to belong scale

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Measures individuals ability to be apart of something

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Ostracism

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Exclusion from social groups

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Social facilitation

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We perform better in the presence of others

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When does Social facilitation not work

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Doing something unfamiliar or new, others make us perform worst

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Social loafing

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We exert less effort when in groups

Due to diffusion of responsibility

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Group polarization

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The judgement of a group tends to more extreme then that of any member

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Common knowledge effect

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Group tends to discuss things they all know, opposed to little things each person knows

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Group think

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The desire to reach a group consensus can lead to poor decisions

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Causes of groupthink

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Cohesion

Isolation

Biased leadership

Desicional stress

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Cohesion

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Group thing only occurs in friends groups

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Isolation

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The more private the group, the more group think

69
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Biased leadership

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One person is too authoritative, may lead others to pressure conformity

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Decisional stress

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Time pressure and other stresses lead to quick poor decisions

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What attracts us together (4 points)

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Proximity

Familiarity

Similarity

Reciprocity

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Proximity

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Like to form social relationships with those near or around you

73
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Familiarity

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Bring around those people often lead you to like them more

74
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Mere exposure effect

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The more we encounter someone or something the more likely we find it favourable or attractive

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Similarity

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We prefer mates who are physiologically like us. (Thoughts and beliefs)

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Reciprocity

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We tend to treat others the way they treat us

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Equity

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Important component of social relationships

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Perceived social support

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Related to greater well being (high positive emotions, low negative emotion)

79
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Perceived social support

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Unwanted and may be embarrassing or frustrating

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Social identity theory

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Groups influence their members self concepts and self esteem

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Soci Meyer model

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A conceptual analysis of self evaluation processes that theorizes self esteem function to psychologically monitor ones degree of inclusion and exclusion

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