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What are the three things that positive psychology has focused on?
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- snfajoajoajojoadfjodsjfsdjfpsjapjsdjofjsososssStrengths or positive qualities
- Positive subjective states
- Instiutions and social forces that promote them
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What were you asked to do for a class exercise when you paired up with another person?
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- t Talked to another person about some challenges they have faced and what strengths they used to overcome them
- helped them to identify a time when they were at their best
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Who is the founder of the Positive psychology movement?
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- Mark Seligman
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What 3 people did background work for positve psychology?
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- Carl Jung’s work concenerning spirituality and the search for and discovery of the meaning of life
- Abraham Maslow’s work on self-actuality and the psychology of peak experiences
- Carl Rogers work on becoming a fully functional person
- becoming your best authentic self
- power of unconditional power regard or acceptance
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What two schools of psychology have provided the background for Positve Psychology?
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- Humanistic psychology’s focus on an inherit ability to grow towards filling our potential
- Existentia psychology’s focus on the importance of meaning and the purpose in life
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What are the 3 components of happiness as defined by psychology?
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- High life satisfaction
- Few negative emotions
- Many positive emotions
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What is the broaden and buld theory and who developed it?
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- Broaden
- one function of positive emotions is to broaden the number of things a person can do - to increase the thoughts and behaviors that come to mind
- Build
- another funciton is to build enduring personal resources (strengths) that can be used to adapt to the environment and successfully live our lives
- developed by Barbara Fredrickson
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What are the 4 positive emotions that may broaden and increase what you can do?
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- Joy
- contentment
- Love
- Interest
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What are the 3 things that Barbara Fredrickson’s experiments have shown about positive emotions?
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- Experiencing positive emotions is related to greater creativity
- People think of more alternatives to problems and more different ways to look at things
- The experience of positve emotons has been linked to better quality of living
- Even for those with pain and medical disorders
- Experiencing positive emotions has also been related to resilience- or the ability to bounce back from stressful situations
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What are the 4 myths about when a person will be happy?
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- I’m married to the right person
- I have kids
- I find the right job
- I’m rich
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What are the 6 myths about when a person can’t be happy?
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- I’m broke
- I don’t have a partner
- My relationship has fallen apart
- The test results were positive
- I’ll never play shortstop for the yankees
- The best years of my life are over
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What is a maximizer and a satisficer?
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- Maximizer: if you seek and only accept the best
- try to seek out information, evaluate all of their options,and make the best choice
- Satisficer: will choose someting this is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better
- are more laid back about choice; evaluate a group of options until they find one that is good enough, and then they stop looking
- Maximizers make slightly better decisons but are less happy with them
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What is the hedonic treadmill?
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- As people rise or fall in their accomplishments, their expectations adjust to a new level
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What are the 5 elements of well-being in Martin Seligman’s new model in his book called “Flourishing”?
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- Positive emotions
- Engagement
- Positvie relationships
- Meaning
- Accomplishment
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What is eudaimonia and elevation?
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- Eudaimonia
- Mark seligman associated it with the “good life”- in the sense of lasting fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness
- “being true to your inner self”- what brings you lasting happines, whether or not it does for anyone else
- Elevation
- a warm uplifting feeling that people experience when they see unexpected acts of goodness, kindness, courage, or compassion
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What are the 6 questions to help people identify their most important goals in life?
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- Who are you heroes?
- What are you values?
- What are your goals?
- What has brought you the most happiness in the past?
- What is your bliss?
- How would you like to be remembered?
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How does Joseph Campbell define following your bliss?
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- ” The deepest sense of being in form and going where your body and soul wants to go”
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What is the hero’s journey or monomyth as described by Joseph Campbell?
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- The hero’s quest is the story of trying to face all of our obstacles and challenges and trying to find the help we need to reach our most important goals
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What ideas did Joseph Campbell borrow from Carl Jung?
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- Campbell built his work on Jung’s ideas about the collective unconscious and the value of myth
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What are the 10 steps in the hero’s journey as stated in the powerpoint?
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- The ordinary world: an uncomfortable home or place where there is limited awareness of the problem
- The call to adventure: increased awareness that there is a problem and a chance for change or moving towards soemthing new
- Refusal of the call: reluctant or resistant for change; fear, hesistation, and ambivalence, are frequently experienced at the start of a big change
- Meeting the mentor: overcoming fear and reluctance by meeting a mentor or finding someone or something with the wisdom that can help you find the courage and confidence you need
- Crossing the threshold: committing to change, facing the challenge involved in making the journey
- Tests, allies, and enemies: experimenting with the first change, initial trials and triibulations
- Approach and preparation; preparing for a big change
- The ordeal: attempting a big change
- Reward and resurrection; the final attempt at a big change; seizing the sword, facing death, and experiencing rebirth
- Return with the elixir: the final mastery of the problem and the and the offering back for others
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Why is the Hero’s journey relevant for positive psychology?
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- The hero’s journey can inspire, motivate, and guide us on the way and positive psychology can give us the best tools possible for successfully making the journey
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What did James Pennebaker find in his research?
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- found that writing about stressful experiences can be healing- if we form a coherant narrative or story
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What did Laura king find in her research?
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- found that writing about your best possible self and reaching your goals can increase well-being
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What are the names of the 6 virtues?
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- Wisdom
- courage
- humanity
- justice
- temperance
- transcendence
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What were the 5 positive psychology interventions tested in the Martin Seligman study we talked about?
1. Identifying signature strengths: participants were asked to take the VIA survey w/out the instruction to use them in a new way
2. You at your best: participants were asked to write about a time when they were at their best and then to reflect on the personal strengths displayed in the story
3. Gratitude visit: participants were given one week to write and then deliver a letter of gratitude in person to someone who had been especially kind to them but had never been properly thanked
4. 3 good things in life:
5. Using signature strengths in a new way
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What 2 interventions in the Seligman study had the longest lasting effects?
* Three good things in life
* Using signature strengths in a new way
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What was the brief definition of creativity given in class?
* " Adaptive originality"
* it must be original- novel, surprising, unexpected
* it must be adaptive
* someting novel that is also useful
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What are the big "C" and little or small "c" creativity?
* Big "C"
* exceptional creativity, such as great scientists, poets, composers, and painters
* Little "c" creativity
* everyday creativity, ingenuity, generating creative solutions to everday problems you encounter at home and work
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What are convergent and divergent thinking?
* Convergent: involves the convergence (coming together) on a single correct response, such is characteristic of most aptitude tests
* Divergent: involves the generation of many alternative responsess, including ideas of considerable variety and originality; thinking outside the box
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What are the 3 types of creativity measures and how do they assess creativity?
* Product measure
* asses the products of creativity
* ex. poems, stories, paintings
* Process measures
* assess the mental processes that underlie an act of creativity
* ex. Remote associations test
* Person measures
* creativity requires a specific profile of characteristics or experiences
* ex. creativity personality scale
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What factors inhibit the development or expression of creativity?
* when stress is very high
* when people are under time pressure
* when their work is closely supervised
* when work is constantly subject to critical examination
* when severe constrains are placed on the range of solutions
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What factors promote the development of creativity?
* Enviroments that are:
* supportive
* reinforcing
* open
* informal
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What are the 2 driving forces in Spielberger and Staff's optimal stimulaiton/dual process theory and how do they balance each other?
* when curiosity is stronger than anxiety, individuals explore their environment
* when anxiety is stronger than curiosity, individuals tend to disengage from goals to reduce risk and stimulation
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What is openness to experience?
* one of the big 5 persoanlity characteristics
* it is a personality dimension involving receptivity to novel fantasies, feelings, ideas, and values
* involves imaginative, artistic, and unconventional tastes and activities
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Why is secure attachment important for the development of curiosity?
* it provides a safe and stable base for exploring the environment and having novel experiences
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What are the 3 ways that curiosity is related to greater well-being?
* It may be related to increased sensitivity to rewards
* It may be related to increased intrinsic motivation
* It may increase how selective and responsive you are to activities that are enriching
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How is open-mindedness defined in the Values in Action survey?
* the willingness to search actively for evidence against one's favored beliefs, plans, or goals, and to weigh such evidence fairly when it is available
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What is selective exposure?
* people maintain their beliefs by exposing themselves to information that they already know is likely to support what they want to believe
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What is the difference b/n intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?
* Intrinsic motivation: learning for its own sake, to provide challenge, satisfy curiosity, create interest and enjoyment
* Extrinsic motivation: a means to an end, to get good grades, to win a promotion, to please someone, to get into graduate school or get a good job
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What are the 4 things that increase the love of learning?
* Competence
* Value
* well-developed individual interest
* feeling independent and autonomous
* feeling challenged
* having a sense of possilbility
* being resourceful
* having a sense of self-efficacy
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What 2 psychologists have done the most to contribute to the study of wisdom?
* Robert Sternburg of Yale University
* Paul Baltes of the Max Planck group in Germany
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What are the 2 parts of Robert Sterberg's definition of wisdom?
* practical knowledge of real world pursuits
* how well you handle critical situations on the job in relationships
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What are the 5 criteria for what is wise according to Paul Baltes?
1. Rich factual knowledge about the fundamental factualities of life-
2. Rich procedural knowledge about the fundametal practicalities of life
3. Life span contextualism
4. values relativism and tolerance- acknowledgement of individual and cultural differences in values
5. Recognition and management of uncertainty
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What are the 3 ways that psychology has conceptualized wisdom?
1. wise products
2. wise people
3. wise processes
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What is the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm?
* research studies of wisdom
* participants are asked to read short vignettes about problems of life management, planning, and review
* they are then asked to thing aloud about these life problems, and their responses are recorded and transcribed
* a selected panel of trained judges then rates the protocols according to the 5 criteria
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What are the 3 things that lead to wisdom?
1. Facilitative experimental contexts
2. Expertise relevant factors
3. Person related factors
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What are the 3 parts of the definition of bravery?
1. Brave/valorous action must be voluntary- you are not forced to do something
2. Bravery must involve a judgement- an understanding of risk and an acceptance of the consequences of action
3. Bravery requires the presence of danger, loss, risk, or potential injury
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What are the 6 personal characteristics that may lead to bravery and courage?
1. self-confidence
2. internal locus of control
3. valuing indepence and freedom
4. low levels of arousal under stress
5. a sense of oneness with other people
6. prosocial orientation
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What are the 3 types of bravery?
1. Physical bravery
2. Moral bravery
3. Psychological bravery
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What are the 7 ways to increase bravery and courage?
1. self-confidence
2. finding a good mentor
3. identifying good examples of courage
4. finding a support group
5. specific training for challenging tasks
6. psychotherapeutic techniques
7. think of your life as a hero's journey and find a hero to identify with
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