IDC Quiz Flashcards
Affective Happiness
Happiness IN your life
Cognitive Hapiness
Happiness WITH your life
The Pollyanna Principle
A state of mind, one in which the subject remains stubbornly optimistic and upbeat regardless of the circumstance
Affective Forecasting
Process of predicting how future events will make us feel emitionally
Miswanting
Act of being mistaken about what and how much you will like something in the future
Impact Bias
Overestimating the duration and intensity of emotional reactions
Hedonic Adaptation
Process of getting used to a negative or positive stimulus “we just get used to things”
Psychological Immune System
A set of unconscious psychological mechanisms to protect ourselves from negative things
3 Ways to Better Happiness
1 Experience over time
2 Adaptation through savouring
3Thwart Adaptation with negative thinking
Negative Adaptation
The act of thinking about negative thoughts to appreciate the good “what if I never got to experience…”
Attention
The set of processes that allow us to consciously focus on a particular bit of sensory information at the expense of other things
Bottom Up Attention
-Allocated Effortlessly/autimatically
ex Notification, new smell
Top Down Attention
-Allocated effortfully and consciously based on our current goals or prior knowledge
ex paying attention in a math lesson
Attention Hygiene
Using a variety of strategies to take control of your attention and minimize distraction
Cognitive Behavioural Theory (CBT)
Form of therapy based on the idea how we think and feel are connected
