Class

Question 1

Three Pillars

Answer 1

Bottom line: Until the 1940’s, psychology had three distinct missions:
– curing mental illness
– exploring how to foster more fulfilling
and productive lives
– understanding and developing high
potential
* (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000)

Question 2

Positive psychology has a long past but only a short as a science

Answer 2

-Chris Peterson (2006)

Question 3

Abraham Maslow 1908-1970

Answer 3

President of APA 1968
Developed Humastic Psych
Maslow’s Hierarchy

Question 3

Psychology meaning-Oxford

Answer 3

Psychology / [mass noun] / the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those effecting behavior in a given context.

Question 3

Martin Seligman. . .-Psychology

Answer 3

“Psychology is half-baked, literally half- baked…We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part aboutrepairanddamage. Butthe othersideisunbaked. Thesideof strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living.”

Question 4

Opinion vs Fact

Answer 4

Opinion is a view or judgment formed about something not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
VS.
Fact: a thing that is known or proved to be true.

Question 4

Who is Martin Seligmann?

Answer 4

The father of learned optimism
* He reintroduces the study of human
strengths and virtues to those of illness, damage, and repair.
* Brings together top scientists to study well- being.
* Insists on empirical rigor equal to traditional methods.
* To shed the qualifying label and once more be considered an integral part of
psychology as a whole.

Question 4

Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

Answer 4

Self actualization, esteem, love and belonging, safety needs, physiological needs

Question 4

Hierarchy of study methods for clinical decision-making

Answer 4

Randomized Controlled Double Blind Studies
Randomized Controlled Studies
Cohort Studies
Case Control Studies
Case Series
Case Reports
Ideas, Editorials, Opinions
Animal research
In vitro (test tube) research

Question 5

Randomized controlled trial: (RCT)

Answer 5

Randomized controlled trial: (RCT) A study in which people are allocated at random (by chance alone) to receive one of several clinical interventions.

Question 6

Cohort study

Answer 6

a study that samples a group of people with common characteristics or experience

Question 7

Case-Control Study

Answer 7

compares patients who have a disease or outcome of interest (cases) with patients who do not have the disease or outcome (controls), and looks back retrospectively to compare how frequently the exposure to a risk factor is present in each group.

Question 8

Meta-analysis

Answer 8

A research method that combines the results of several related studies to produce better results.