Quiz 4 Flashcards
Composition of character
- each character strength is a distinct positive strength
- forge connections to the larger universe, provide meaning and help a person determine how to engage in a more satisfying life
- co-occur with other strengths or a tradeoff needs to be made
circumplex model
An axis, with four quadrants, with the heart and mind on the north and south and focus on self and focus on others on the west and east
Character strengths must be….
measurable, ubiquitous (universal across cultures), fulfilling as it contributes to happiness and overall satisfaction in life, a different collection of strengths, allow for tradeoff when two character strengths are further apart
Criteria of strengths
- contributes to various fufilments for oneself and others
- allow you to achieve more in the absence of distress and disorder
- morally valued
- display of one strength does not diminish other people in the vicinity
- needs to manifest in the range of the individual’s behavior
Jobs and benefiting character strengths
Therapist - social intelligence judges - fairness sales - friendliness forensics - curiosity performance - optimism teachers/writers - love of learning
Death to understand life
to truly live, one must understand and appreciate the finite element of life, you cannot have life without death
Questions raised by the fact of human mortality>
Why are we born? What is the meaning of our having lived? What is the impact of our death on the value and significance of our life? what is the relationship between life and death
Mortality salience
Death awareness and the instinct for self-preservation, need or potential existence after death, the formula for immortality
Terror management theory
we need to feel a level of significance in this world in order to have a truly meaningful life. If we do not find significance, we confront the possibility that our lives lack purpose
Symbolic immortality
Biological, social, natural, and theological, and fame
Distal death defense
denying vulnerability to physically death, pushing the assumption of possibilty to death into the future
Death denial
Oppression of concerns and anxiety, modern society is removed from preperation of the dead, hospitals and doctors like to think that we can push away death and cure the body of any diseases
Responses to questions of the meaning of death
yin/yang suggests where there is death there is life, and wherever there is life there is death. Other responses attempt to understand what happens after death within art, popular culture, folk tales, anthropology,, literature, philosophy, religion and theology
considerations about death
death as an event (the halting of life at a particular time point), death as a condition (a non-reversible condition that prevents life from occurring), death as a state of non-existence (state of existence after death)
Death acceptance
the intention to overcome death anxiety and live an authentic happy life, quest for meaning in life, acceptance of death means greater opportunity toward joy and greater motivation to do what you want with your life given the finite element of life
