Lecture 5

Question 1

Proposed that happiness is related to how many good events one experienced in their life

Answer 1

John Locke

Jeremy Bentham

Question 2

Way extreme positive and negative life events work?

Answer 2

People who experience extreme positive or negative life events only feel that emotion for a limited amount of time

Question 3

Money and happiness

Answer 3

There is some correlation

Those with less money are generally happier, those with more show no difference

Question 4

Hedonic Treadmill

Answer 4

Moods adjust quickly to most life events

Most of us have a happiness set point (baseline happiness level)

Question 5

Ethics in research wwii example

Answer 5

Nazi medical experiments caused the Nuremberg War Tribunal (consent, right to discontinue)

Question 6

Tuskegee syphillis study

Answer 6

US government conudcted

tested on 399 african american men

Question 7

Milgram’s obedience to authority

Answer 7

Shock test, electric shocks

Question 8

What percent administered the highest voltage?

Answer 8

65%

Question 9

REB =

Answer 9

Research Ethics Board INFORMED CONSENT