Get Positive
A former President of the American Psychological Association, he is referred to as the founder of positive psychology
Who is Martin Seligman?
This is frequently referred to as the most important correlate of happiness
What are deep, rich relationships?
This person was the President of the United States when Ohio University was founded in 1804, and expressed the importance of *Happiness* in life in his writings, including the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
One of the two dimensions of Snyder and Lopez's Hope Theory and Hope Assessment.
What is Agency or Pathway?
one of two variables to focus on in coaching, as they are "of key importance to achieving and maintaining subjective well-being."
What are goals or social relationships?
This is the term used by positive psychologists for evolution-induced propensity to focus on deficits
What is the negativity bias?
According to this week's article, "The Happy Couple," this is the highest correlate with partner success.
What is celebrating positive things in the other person's life?
The type of happiness espoused by Aristotle
What is euidaimonia?
This focus on goals is not merely about goal setting, but about another aspect of goal pursuit.
What is goal striving?
The common process in coaching that is the focus of the article by Ray Rood.
What is facilitation?
The percentage of happiness that is attributable to genetics, according to Lyubomirsky
What is 50%?
Haidt's perspective of whether nature or nurture is ultimately responsible for our ability to create positive attachments with others
What is neither?
The psychological approach, debunked by Haidt, based on the idea that people only act in accordance with reinforcement or punishment.
What is behaviorism?
The therapeutic system for helping people challenge or tame negative, automatic thoughts. It came up in the short Mather supplemental reading on optimism.
What is cognitive (behavioral) therapy? or the ABCDE system
A common approach to determining a client's strengths
What is the Gallup StrengthsFinder, StrengthsQuest, Clifton Strengths, VIA strengths or Strength Spotting?
One of the types of goals that is considered to be helpful for well-being, according to positive psychologists
What is intrinsic? Active? Authentic? Self-chosen? or Approach?
The idea from attachment theory that when a sense of ______ is provided early in life, children have confidence to explore
What is "Safety"?
Any one of the common life goals mentioned by positive psychologists that will not result in happiness
What is money, or status, or approval, or beauty?
This is a system based on leveraging strengths in organizational improvement, founded at Case Western Reserve around 1990.
What is Appreciative Inquiry?
One of the articles on coaching indicates that using coaching techniques without _______ is quackery.
What is theory?
In the Happiness Equation (H = S + C + V), this is letter that represents the most useful approach to pursuing well-being.
What is "V" or voluntary activities?
While passionate love is fleeting, according to Haidt, this other type of love grows over the course of time as lives become deeply entertwined
What is companionate love?
The acronym used by Seligman based on the five pillars of well-being or happiness
What is PERMA?
Consistent with the "hope" aspect of this category, this is the 2nd "D" in Appreciative Inquiry, coming after "Discovering" an individual's or organization's strengths.
What is Dream?
The title attributed to the irony that coaching, which is about helping people meet their full potential, has not reached its potential.
What is the "coaching paradox"?