Positive Psychology

Question 1

What is the aim of positive psychology? What is the essence ?

Answer 1

The aim is to challenge the long standing understanding of psychology as malfunction and psychopathology. It is to focus on, like humanistic psych, growth, development and achievement of potential. It is also focuses on pisitive intuituin, subjective exp and individual traits to improve quality of life and pathologies when life is meaningless and barren. Investigating traits, processes and social institutions that promote a happy and meaningful life.

Question 2

What makes positive psych distinct from psychoanalytic psych?

Answer 2

It tends to focus on individual strengths or promoting good outcomes rather than on faults that could lead to mental illnesses

Question 3

What are the most common virtues across major cultures?

Answer 3

1. courage
2. justice
3. humanity
4. temperance
5. transcendence
6. wisdom

Question 4

emotional strength involving the will to accompolish goals in the face of oppsition is called______

Answer 4

courage

Question 5

Strengths that underlie a healthy community life are called _____

Answer 5

Justice - fairness, leadership etc

Question 6

love, kindness are examples of ____ kind of strength. Define it

Answer 6

Humanity - strengths that involve protecting and taking care of others

Question 7

_____ is the strength that protects against excess

Answer 7

temperance - forgiveness, self-control and humility

Question 8

Strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge are called ______

Answer 8

Wisdom

Question 9

____ are strengths that help give meaning to life by connecting to the larger universe

Answer 9

transcendence - gratitude, hope, sprituality

Question 10

The heart of phenomenological appraoch is what?

Answer 10

It is the concious awareness of being alive and that moment to moment experience matters the most

Question 11

what are the 2 ways to make the most of being alive?

Answer 11

1. Mindfulness - being explicitly aware and in control of every moment. It can help reduce stress, improve memory and creativity. freeing oneself from disturbing and reccuring thoughts. Helps reduce anger and likelihood of depression. However it is not awlays helpful, we need to be carefully consider the situation when we begin to practice this
2. Flow - immersing yourself in whatever ypu are doing and not having any understanding of the time and things around u. Dropping momentary experince is imp too. Autotelic activities that allow the person enjoyment for their own sake is flow. Losing track of time, lack of ditractability and tremendous concentration and thoughts only concerning activity at hand.
   - Flow is the alignment or balance between the skill level and challenge at hand. If there is imblance ir can lead to anxiety and stress.
   - Drawback: such people arw hard to interact with and maybe poor company
   - loses track of time and gives up concious control of thoughts and activities

Question 12

____ is the term used for feelings experienced when people face an entity that is vast and challenges their worldview

Answer 12

AWE

Question 13

What does the feeling of awe result in or what does it entail?

Answer 13

Feelings of awe can induce humbleness and be the anecdote to traits like arrogance, narcissim, entitlement

Question 14

What can be the drawbacks of psotive psyc?

Answer 14

1. may prevent someone from prediciting problems before they arise or take risks that are foolish
2. doesnt discuss dilemmas arising from free will
3. existential anxiety