Definitions
Positive Psychology is?
The scientific and applied approach to uncovering people's strengths and promoting their positive functioning.
What is an Approach Oriented Emotion?
An active movement toward a stressful encounter rather than away from.
According to Steger (2009), an individuals meaning in life has been correlated with?
Less depression and anxiety
What makes a culture collectivist?
When concerns about the group are greater than concerns about the individual.
What are the 3 Types of Altruism?
1. Reciprocity Based
2. Care Based
3. Kin Based
What type of attributions do optimists tend to make for negative outcomes? [3 types]
1. External
2. Variable
3. Specific
Aims of Positive Psychology? [3]
1. Seek a balanced, more complete view of human functioning.
2. Addresses gaps in previous pathological approach to psychology.
3. Uncover people's strengths and promote their positive functioning.
Need/Goal Satisfaction
Agency Thinking is what?
The ability to motivate yourself and to build a capacity for persistence and long-term effort in the face of obstacles.
What are the 3 Happy Lives described by Martin Seligman? [describe them]
1. The Pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about present, past, and future.
2. The Good Life: using your signature strengths to obtain abundant gratification (through activities we like doing) in the main realms of your life.
3. The Meaningful Life: using your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger than you are.
What are 5 sources for Self Efficacy?
1. Mastery Experiences
2. Vicarious Experiences
3. Visualization
4. Physiological State
5. Verbal Persuasion
Why do researchers suggest that it is important to keep in mind construct equivalence in evaluating strengths?
Different cultures define different concepts differently.
Both Groups: pick one concept we have discussed in class and discuss 3 ways you can actively incorporate it into your life and how it would benefit you.