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Exam One Flashcards

1
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Social Construction

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Reality rests in perception rather than “formal truth”, cultural values shape perceptions and “truth:(We have too many filters like gender differences)

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Reality Negotiation

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the process by which differing social constructions can merge to re-define a common, agreed-upon “reality”

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What were the effects before and after WW2?

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Before: curing mental illness (nurturing talent, good life) After: treating mental health

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Work+Play+Love=

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“Normalcy”- Freud

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Hegelian Dialet

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George Hegel

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What is the eastern view of the Good Life?

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“a spiritual journey involving others that results in transcendence and enlightenment”

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What is the Western view of the Good Life?

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optimal intrapsychic functioning with pursuit of a better life on earth

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Western Influences: Athens

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Plato initiated and argued for positive influence of community on character development and Artistotle elaborated moral and intellectual virtues

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Western Influences: Judeo Christian

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hospitatlity to the poor, ethical fairness, peace-making

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Eastern Influences

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common trend is balance

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Becker and Maracek

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say positive psych. is wrong because self-fulfillment is western/ also said its clubby and has an anthem, opportunity is not available to all and it has neglect of social institutions

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12
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The Paradox of Choice author

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Schwartz

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The Paradox of Choice

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The more choices the worse it is

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14
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What pivotal development “derailed” the mission of psychology
toward concentrating more heavily on mental illness rather than applying psychology toward helping people lead more fulfilling lives or nurturing talent?

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World War 2

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15
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Who is widely regarded as the “igniter” of interest in positive psychology?

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Martin Seligman

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16
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Which is the best definition of the value of TRANSCENDENCE?

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Forging appreciative connections to the larger universe

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17
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Choosing between a POSITIVE versus a PATHOLOGY perspective about how the world operates depends on your

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Social constructions of the facts

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18
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Which term stands for the ability of a test to produce consistent findings over multiple administrations?

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Reliability

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Which term stands for the psychometric property of a test measuring what it intended to measure?

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Validity

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20
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Which term represents the extent to which a concept has the same definition in two different cultures?

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Construct equivalence

21
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Which term represents the extent measurement strategies can be equally applied to two different cultures?

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Metric equivalence

22
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Which term focuses on assessing whether proper translation from an original language to a second language has occurred?

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Linguistic equivalence

23
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If I develop a new test on optimism and it shows a strong and similar result to Seligman’s Learned Optimism Inventory, which principle have I demonstrated?

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Construct Validity

24
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When I can use scores on a scale to predict performance on another behavior (e.g., job performance) or results on another test I am demonstrating

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Criterion Validity

25
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If I slip questions from chapter 12 in a test that is supposed to cover chapters 4-6, I have weakened the claim for which of the following?

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Content validity

26
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Agape is most associated with

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selfless concern for the welfare of others

27
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Which term refers to individuals who have simultaneously high levels of social, emotional, and psychological well-being

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Flourishing

28
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A test cannot be valid if it is

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unreliable

29
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Forms of reliability

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Split half/ alternate forms and inter-rater

30
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Biological theory

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Biological determinants of child rearing

31
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Psychoanalytic

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The intersection of culture and personality

32
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Behavioral

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Educational applications

33
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Cognitive Developmental

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How thinking and cognition unfold influenced by culture

34
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Resilience as a concept emerged in the 1970s.

Why?

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Started looking at abused children and their potential to be future abusers

35
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What does research say about resilience?

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child more likely to bounce back if they are committed to a tradition , and have connection to caring adult

36
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How to age well and founder?

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Engage in problem-solving strategies (Werner)

37
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Describe the two strategies to research resilience?

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First: looking at how variables combine leads to resilience

And second looking at who are surviving adversity

38
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The 1/3 that was invulnerable were:

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outgoing and engaged in social support

39
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What was nun longevity predicted by?

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diary content reflecting positive emotion

40
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What does etiology mean?

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cause

41
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Eugenics

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famous selective breeding study (correlation) on heritable feeblemindedness

42
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Cultural deficiency

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superiority of power holding culture

43
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Cultural pluralism

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recognizing distinction but still favoring power culture

44
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Cultural relativism

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factors in context

45
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Psychological strength is

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universal

46
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No one strength is

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universal

47
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Context affects

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strength development

48
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Culture is both

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a reflection and determinant of life goals

49
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We must look beyond out worldview to understand

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individual strengths

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