Week 6: Positive Cognitive States: Optimism & Resilience

Question 1

Hope Theroy

Answer 1

Willpower to surmount both types of optimism

1. Goals
2. Pathway
3. Agency

Question 2

Waypower

Question 3

Optimism as attentional

Question 4

Defensive pessimism

Answer 4

Relies on drawing focus back to the success of the desired outcome

Question 5

Preference style accounts for maximum performance

Question 6

DP have lower satisfaction and higher anxiety but introduction of other traits confuses the person

Question 7

DP may not work in relationshps despite accounting for higher success

Question 8

Unrealistic optimism

Question 9

Action vs emotion focused coping

Question 10

Positive Illusion

Answer 10

cushions self

Question 11

Depressive realism

Answer 11

mild depression, more accurate in perceptions

Question 12

Developmental perspective: resilience

Answer 12

Developed from threat or risk that has either + or - outcomes

-Normative developmental expectations (as long as our adaptive capabilities aren’t compromised)

-Longitudinal

Question 13

Clinical perspective: resilience

Answer 13

Short term, traumatic events

Question 14

Recovery

Question 15

Trauma Challenges basic assumptions

Answer 15

1. Belief about personal vulnerability
2. The perception of the world as meaningful and comprehensible
3. The view of ourselves in a positive light

Question 16

Meaningmaking

Answer 16

Sense-making:

Benefit finding: