Hon 2 quiz 3 Flashcards
Mindfulness, Savoring, and Flow is associated with
Better academic performance, work performance, better relationships, and more frequent experiences of positive emotions are associated with doing one thing at a time and being mindful
Media multitasking
concurrent use of two or more media streams (TV, print, phone, music, video games, email, text message)
Those who engage in more media multitasking are likely to have difficulty
maintaining attention compared to those who do not.
Texting during class can usually predict
worse grades
Mindfulness is about present moment awareness:
The attention you bring to your current thoughts, feelings, sensations, as well as to the external environment in which you find yourself at any given moment.
Attention to present moment is done
purposefully
Automatic pilot
not being focused
Non Judgmental stance
noticing feelings or urges but not labeling them as good or bad.
Non reactivity
Making space between you and your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and urges. “I watch my feelings without getting lost in them”
Acceptance attitude
see things as they really are
Beginner’s mind
- approach information and experiences sin the present moment as a novice who is still open to learning,
Definitions of mindfulness
Most recent- The cognitive process of noticing new things, seeking out and attending to a variability, and actively generating novelty and making distinctions
Mindfulness is associated with
psychological, interpersonal, and physical benefits
A mindful person can experience the same events as a less mindful person but it may
not affect them as much because they treat it as passing events rather than definitive or stable truths.
Loving-kindness meditations
effort to change or grow one’s connection to others
Mediator
variable that explains the relationship b/w two other variables
Savoring
Process of up-regulating positive emotion by redirecting your attention in the moment to stimuli or events that lead to the experiences of positive emotion
Flow
state of absorption in an intrinsically rewarding activity
3 conditions give rise to experience of flow-
goals established, immediate feedback, and challenge of the activity and challenge of your skills to meet that challenge are in balance.
Clinical psychologist approach therapy as
evaluate, diagnosis, treat disease
Disease model (used by clinical psychologists)
placing emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Therapy begins with assessment of symptoms, then the psychologists determine whether the symptoms meet the criteria for any of the disorders contained in the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders. To qualify you must have 5 of the 9 DSM symptoms
Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders
symptoms that determine mental illness
positive -negative asymmetry effect-
when forming first impressions of others we tend to spend more time and energy processing negative than positive information and this negative information ultimately contributes to our conclusions.
Strength-based model
strength based approaches that involve identifying and nurturing peoples psychological and social assets rather than solely remedying their problems.
Mental health is a state of
well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
mental health is defined as
the presence of strengths not the absence of problems
Corey keys defined mental health as composed of three related things:
Hedonic emotional well-being, Eudaimonic psychological well-being, and Eudaimonic social well-being
Hedonic emotional well-being:
experiencing pleasure - high levels of positive effect low levels of negative effect
Eudaimonic psychological well-being
finding personal fulfillment - self acceptance, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life.
Eudaimonic social well-being
: experiencing optimal functioning in groups - social acceptance, social integration, social contribution, social coherence, and social actualization.
Researchers surveyed 535 people being treated for major depressive disorder.
16.6% of participants said that “presence of positive health” can be used to help heal depression.
Positive psychology intervention
designed to increase people’s level of virtually any positive psychology variable imaginable, including gratitude, mindfulness, hope, forgiveness, and kindness.
Researchers do not agree what even
constitutes a PPI
First definition of PPI
any intervention focusing on a positive topic
Second definition of PPI
PPIS must target mechanisms or outcomes that full under the category of positive psychology
Final definition of PPI
PPis should have the goal of improving people’s lives not fixing problems
Parks and Biwas-Diener believe that
no one definition can work, instead they propose 3 criteria for PPI.
3 criteria for PPI by Parks and Biwas-Diener
- To nurture or increase particular positive psychology variables like optimism, gratitude, forgiveness, ect.
- Research shows that the intervention actually changes the positive psychology variable it purports to target (helps exclude pop psychology)
- Research shows that improving the targeted positive-psychology variable will lead to desirable outcomes.
LIFE model combines
subjectivity and objectivity and collective and individual to define PPIS
Positivity activity intervention:
designed to increase well-being by promoting positive feelings, positive thoughts, and positive behavior. developed to nurture optimism and hope
College students wrote for 8 weeks 15 mins per day envisioning a positive future life.
It showed that those who did this had seen great increases in well-being and had achieved their goals rather than those who did not.
-Interventions made to
help people practice and nurture character strengths.
Hope therapy
set goals, generate pathways to goals, produce higher agency thoughts
Well-being therapy:
targets various components of Carl Ryiff model of psychological well-being. Takes place over 8-16 weekly or biweekly sessions each lasting 45 to 60 minutes
It takes place in three phases:
Three phases of well being therapy
first identifying past experiences of well-being, then identify the distorted or irrational thoughts blocking your well-being, and last Ryff’s six dimensions of psychological well-being are presented.
Ryff’s six dimensions of psychological well-being are
Self-acceptance, environmental mastery, autonomy, personal growth, positive social interactions, and life purpose.
CBT
Cognitive behavior therapy:
Research usually addresses WBTS efficacy in augmenting tradition.
3 controlled trials showed that combining CBT with WBT results in a decreased rate of relapses in peoples recurrent depression.
Highschool students who participated in WBT showed
greater improvement in psychological well-being and decreases in anxiety.
Positive psychotherapy
a newer example of PPI designed to treat depression
Based on 3 premises:
PPTBased on 3 premises:
- Psychopathology can result when challenges and problems in life thwart clients capacity for growth, fulfillment, and well-being
- Strengths and positive feelings are important in their own right
- Not all clients need deep long term discussions of their troubles
Three phases of ppt
clients explore a balanced narrative of themselves, clients deal with negative memories and cultivate positive emotions, and are introduced examples to help them foster positive relationships, meaning, and purpose.
What is intriguing about WBT and PPT is that disorders like depression may be
bolstering clients’ psychological assets rather than solely targeting their symptoms.
Culture matters for
PPIS as well
Korea had smaller increase than
United states when using gratitude interventions
6 love styles by John Alan Lee 1973:
Eros, Ludus, Storge, Mania, Agape, Pragma
Eros
passionate, sexual, or romantic (physically attracted)
Ludus
a game (based on tricks played by partner ex: Blair and Chuck)