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
Behaviours that make us happy/tips
- Talk to other people
- Put time into maintaining friendships
- Engage with like minded people
- Give things away
- Random acts of kindness
Flow
A mental state in which you are preforming an activity fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus (in the zone)
-challenging but attainable
-serenity
-lose track of time
Time Affluence
Feeling that one has sufficient time to pursue leisure and other activities that are personally enjoyable
The Autonomy Paradox
Technology gives us more time since we can do things faster but also takes away time because we never really stop working
Ironic Process Theory
An idea that argues that the more you try not to think of something the more you will think about it
What does RAIN Stand for
Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture
Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
Underestimating the influence of our current internal state or attitude, preferences and behaviours
Hot Cognition
Emotional bandwith is running low, make bad decisions or lash out
Cold Cognition
Cool calm and collective decisions
