Final Flashcards
What does psychoanaylsis emphasize?
emphasized the unconscious conflicts in determining behavior and personality
What is Behaviorism
focus on observable behaviors that can be measured and verified.
What is the goal of behaviorism
discover the fundamental princples of learning
What is existential Theory
every human is responsible for discovering their own meaning and identity
What is humanisitic psychology
ea. persons unique potential for psychological growth and self direction.
what is important to psychological growth according to humanistic psychology?
free will, self-determination, and choice
fully functioning person according to humanisitc perspective?
someone who is continually moving toward self-actualization
What was the focus of the disease model?
curing mental and personality disorders. strength and talents were disregarded
difference between humanistic and positive psych
Humanistic psychology focuses more on individual uniqueness, whereas positive
psychology focuses more on general trends.
◦ humanistic psychology (qualitative) : What brought you here today? : therapy
counseling
◦ positive psychology (quantitative): how do we measure happiness? questionnaire,
exercises.
“father of positive psychology
Martin Seligman
Flourishing
High on well-being and low on mental illness are flourishing
Struggling
high well being and high on mental illness
floundering
low well being, high mental illness
Languishing
low well being and low mental illness
are positive and negatve affects on the same continuum?
are not on the same continuum
does absence of mental illness imply mental health
no
a common positive psych question
what is right about people?
who started flow state
czikzentmihalyi
what is emotion?
subjective feelings and characteristic patterns of psychological arousal from thoughts and behaviors
are emotions short or long lived?
short
what is a mood?
less intense and slower to change than emotions
what do emotions involve?
physiology, thoughts, subjective feelings, motivation, expressions, and behavior
what is affectivity?
extent to which individual experiences positive negative moods
what is affective style?
individual differences on how someone reacts and regulates their emotions
are negative emotions necessary
yes, for healthy functioning
what is broadening effect?
positive emotion is experienced, the mind opens up to new solutions and creativity
what is the building effect?
ability to build personal resources using our positive emotions.
what is undoing effect?
positive emotions can undo the negative effects caused by negative emotions
abnormal behavior due to what ? (prehistoric)
supernatural powers
abnormal behavior due to what in the middle ages?
demonic Possession
what is emerging adulthood
late teens to 30s
which age group is happiest of all?
older persons
what is a flow state?
a state in which action follows upon action. When doing a challenging activity that requires skill
what are the 8 parameters of the state of flow?
merging of action and awareness, complete concentration on task, no worry about losing control, loss of self-consciousness, time passes in unordinary way, autotelic
does flow increase well being and how?
yes, because of the 8 parameters
what is autotelic?
the experience of flow becomes its own reward