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Hope & Change
Happiness
Resilience
Being Thankful
Positive Psychology
100
Fundamental for achieving any deliberate goal.
What is hope?
100
A condition of sadness you are stuck in.
What is depression?
100

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.

What is resilience or grit

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.” What does this describe? 

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

This attachment has the highest correlation with happiness.

What are friendships?

200
One of two opposite thinking styles.
What is optimistic or pessimistic thinking.
200

What can improve happiness? 

writing down what you're thankful for 

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 someone wins the lottery, the happiness they experience is ___ (length)

short lived 

300

Pat thinks he's really smart but the teacher made a terrible test and that's why he gets a bad grade, but when Sandy gets a bad grade, Pat say's that's because he's lazy and doesn't study. 

fundamental attribution error 

300

What does gratitude do? 

decreases stress, make positivity more accessible

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

What is the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

physiological

400

This famous playwright said, "There is nothing either good or bad, only thinking makes it so."

Who is William Shakespeare.

400

How is gratitude collected in the experiment we read about? 

journaling

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

What chemical is connected to rewards? 

dopamine

500

Pavlov taught animals to associate a bell with salivation- their mouth watering. What animal? 

dogs

500

Why do we use a questionaire to collect data? 

so the data is from the same scale, standardized 

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?