Vocabulary
The ability to learn from experience to think rationally and deal effectively with others
What is Intelligence?
Psychological term that describes our general level of happiness
What is set point?
Reduced levels of energy, psychomotor agitation, disruption to sleep and eating behavior, aggression and self-harm
What are behavioral characteristics of depression?
The basic unit of genetics
What are genes?
Study who aimed to see if intelligence is genetic linked
What is Minnesota Twin Study?
An emotional state characterized by feelings of joy and satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment
What is Happiness?
Heritability
What biological factor plays a role in one's happiness?
Took 847 caucasian New Zealanders and had them self report their depression levels and then checked their self report through cross checking friends?
What was the first step in Casplet's study?
70%
How much of intelligence can be attributed to heritability?
The basic unit of heredity responsible for strong genetic info and transmitting subsequent generation
What is genes?
Compared happiness scores among sets of twins
What is Happiness Twin Study?
Capslet
Who preformed studies regarding genetics and depression?
The study of families, family trees and tracking
What is Genealogy?
Identical twins & fraternal twins raised together and apart
Who was the subject group for MT study
A common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel the way you think and act
What is depression?
The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
-positive functioning
What is positive psychology?
Medical illness 3.2% of children are diagnosed with
What id Depression?
The parent who is responsible for passing on the trait of baldness
What is a mother
Heritability and enviormentability
What are Two factors that Bouchard used in his Minnesota Twin Study
Study of the human mind behavior; Learn more about what this field involves through emotion and development
What is Psychological?
Lykken et. al
Who conducted the Happiness Twin Study?
5-HTT gene
What gene has an increases vulnerability for depression between ages 21-28?
The molecule inside cells that contains the genetic information responsible for the development and function of an organism.
What is DNA?
The ability that individuals use to find a more optimal fit between themselves and the demands of the environment through adapting, shaping, or selecting a new environment in the pursuit of personally valued goals
What is practical intelligence?