The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
What is resilience?
100
"A sense of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift whether the gift be a tangible benefit from a specific other or a moment of peaceful bliss evoked by natural beauty.” (Peterson & Seligman, 2004, p. 554)
What is gratitude?
100
The scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning.
What is Positive Psychology?
200
The “Spiral of Change” begins with this step.
What is pre-contemplation?
200
Has the highest correlation with happiness.
What are friendships?
200
One of two opposite thinking styles.
What is optimistic or pessimistic thinking.
200
Moral Barometer, Moral Motive, and Moral Reinforcer
What are the three functions of gratitude?
200
The father of positive psychology.
Who is Martin Seligman?
300
This process takes place in stages, requires a plan, and is nonlinear.
What is change?
300
When compared to 11 paraplegics and 18 quadriplegics these lucky people scored the same on happiness.
What are lottery winners?
300
One of the 7 factors of resilience.
What is:
emotion regulation,
impulse control,
self-efficacy,
reaching out,
empathy,
optimism, or
causal analysis
300
Increases positivity, decreases stress, and enables savoring.
What are the reasons why gratitude works?
300
A reserve of positive emotions.
What is positive capital?
400
This stage of "Prochaska’s Stages of Change" that includes working on sustaining the change.
What is the maintenance stage?
400
If you have done this, happiness is a characterization of an entire life and determined at the end of life.
What is Surviving Well?
400
He said, "There is nothing either good or bad, only thinking makes it so."
Who is William Shakespeare.
400
Ping pong, journals, daily dozen, and blessings before eating.
What are some ways of how gratitude is expressed?
400
The ratio of positive to negative emotions termed "Positive Ratio".
What is 3:1 ?
500
These prevent people from feeling hopeful. Examples include: learned helplessness and worry about the future.
What are barriers to hopefulness?
500
This statement of seemingly opposite conditions, says that wealthier individuals report greater happiness; however, average happiness does not rise in proportion to greater income.
What is the Easterlin Paradox?
500
From observing dogs restrained in harnesses, Martin Seligman is famous for this theory and how it is related to depression.
What is Learned Helplessness.
500
GQ-6 scoring
What is the name of the questionnaire form that is used to measure gratitude?
500
The tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.
What is hedonic adaptation or return to set-point?