QUIZ 2 Flashcards
Ways to practice gratitude and forgiveness?
Write a letter
Gratitude jar
Remember a time you were forgiven
REACH intervention
Recall- bring to mind the event and your emotions
Empathy- understand perspective of person who hurt you
Altruistic- engage in the act of extending forgiveness
Commit- commit to forgiveness
Hold- maintain the commitment
Forgiveness
Process of reducing negative emotions, thoughts, and motivations toward a person who caused you harm
Reasons its hard to express gratitude
Misjudging how the person will react
Assuming they already know
types of gratitude interventions
Counting blessings
Gratitude letter or visit
What affects how people show gratitude
Genes
Neural differences
When are people most likely to express gratitude
When they perceive that they benefit from something which they do not have control
Witnessing effect
Those who witness someone else express gratitude may facilitate the same behaviors
Perspective taking
Ability to perceive, understand and inhabit the experiences of someone outside of ourselves
What are the two kinds of gratitude
Relatively long lasting and stable trait
Transient emotional experience
Gratitude as a trait
Tendency to easily experience appreciation, be aware of life’s abundance, acknowledge good in ones life
Gratitude as transient experience
People report how grateful or thankful they feel in the moment
Alkozeis 2 models of gratitude
Cognitive model of gratitude
Psychosocial model of gratitude
Cognitive model of gratitude
Increased, conscious awareness of the good things in ones life
Psychosocial model of gratitude
Gratitude leas to increase pro social behaviors and social support
Six ways to deal with someone who has wronged you?
Think about forgiveness
Remember yo have options
Get ready to forgive
Consider shortcuts
Rely on evidence based interventions (REACH)
Forgive event he hard to forgive
Self-efficacy
A persons belief in their ability to succeed in a particular situation
Who described self-efficacy beliefs to be determinants of how people think, behave, and feel
Albert Bandura
Injustice gap
An ongoing subjective tally of how much perceived injustice is attached to each hurt or offense
What does Albert Banduras social cognitive theory emphasize in determining a personality
Role of observational learning
Social experience
Reciprocal determination
Banduras four major sources of self-efficacy
Mastery experiences
Social modeling
Social persuasion
Psychological responses
Ways to build self-efficacy
Celebrate your success
Observe others
Seem positive affirmations
Pay attention to thoughts and emotions
Dollars and miller frustration aggression hypothesis
Frustration tends to arise when people experience an interference with the occurrence of an instigated goal
Core projects
The most important goals in our lives according to Little
Those that are more resistant to change, most connect to other projects, how valued it is by the person
The difficulty of goals
People receive a stronger positive emotional kick from accomplishing goals they think are more difficult that’s others
Approach goals
Involve attaining, achieving, or increasing something
Avoidance goals
Avoiding, stopping, or reducing something
Why can avoidance goals be problematic
No set end point
Focus on negative things that we’re trying to prevent