CHAPTER TWELVE Flashcards
Central insight
at the center if what makes us humans
INTROSPECTION
Systematic observation of one’s own perceptions and thought processe
Living in bad faith creates 3 problems:
Living a cowardly life
Unhappiness
Is it impossible
Thrown-ness -
The circumstances of your existence
AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE
Coming to terms with existence; being honest, insightful, and morally correct
Anguish –
everything we do no matter what choice we have has a plus or minus, every once in a while, your choices go off the rails unintendedly and anguish is our response to this
Forlornness
Forlornness
Despair –
losing all hope that things can be better in the future, no matter how hard we try to do the right thing, sometimes things don’t go according to plan
SELF-ACTUALIZATION: RODGERS
People have one basic tendency and striving: to actualize, maintain, and enhance their own experience People can be understood only from the perspective of their phenomenal field
Rogers’s phenomenal field definition: the entire panorama of conscious experience
Actualization – the goal of existence is to satisfy this need
Nirvana –
a serene, selfless state
Enlightenment
overcoming the barriers of becoming one with something bigger than us
Anatta
term to describe a non-self, a separation of oneself
Anicca –
all things must pass, nothing is permanent, including us, past, present, future in terms of importance
Chronically accessible constructs
The construal’s that come up all the time in your mind, most easily
PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS
The way we construe the world is what we expect to see in the future
Hierarchy of needs
how human motivation is characterized (lower needs must be met first)
What is true about flow, or autotelic experience?
People who spend more time in flow tend to be depressed.
During flow, time seems to pass very slowly.
People experience a very positive state during flow.
In order to experience flow, a person’s skills must meet the challenge of the activity.
People who spend more time in flow tend to be depressed.
During flow, time seems to pass very slowly.
According to optimistic humanism, the goal of life is to
understand other people.
self-actualize, or maintain and enhance life.
enhance one’s social experience, or Mitwelt.
achieve enlightenment.
self-actualize, or maintain and enhance life.
The alternative to bad faith is
living an authentic existence.
being connected with others and happiness.
achieving nirvana.
experiencing thrown-ness.
living an authentic existence.
Hapiness
teh achievement of hedonic means (seeking pleassure and comfort ) or eudaimonic means (seeking fulfill ones potential)
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOG
- Positive psychology focuses on positive phenomenon
- The rebirth of humanistic psychology
o Focuses on uniquely human capacities and the meaning of life
- True happiness comes from overcoming important challenges
Source of constructs
chosen interpretation of experience
Personal construct system
Sociality corollary –
we can only understand others by understanding their personal construct system
Constructs and reality
VIRTUES
character strengths
Core virtues:
courage, justice, humanity (compassion), temperance, wisdom, transcendence (transcending yourself interacting with others), interacting with the environme
Mindful
to be aware and in control of your experience
Flow
a state of consciousness where you lose track of time and self by becoming completely absorbed in what you are doing
MINDFULNESS
Aware of every thought, sensation, and experience
Optimal experience –
how to make the most of your moment-moment experience because it’s what really matters in life He said the best way you can spend your time is doing autotelic activities
Autotelic activities –
ones that are enjoyable for their own sake, this is the best way to spend time
Relatedness
establishing meaningful and satisfying ties to other people
Hedonic well-being
maximize pleasure, minimize pain, can be dangerous
True happiness
comes from overcoming important challenges
Optimism advantages:
Less fearful, more willing to take risks, relatively happy
Optimism disadvantages:
Take foolish risks or fail to anticipate problems
Eudaimonia
focus is on intrinsic goals
Hedonia
focuses on extrinsic goals
Happiness is detrmined by …
Geneics, life cuircomstances intenional activities
personal construct theory
each person experience of teh worls is orgainzed by a unique se t if person contructs
