Psych 101
A branch of psychology that studies human flourishing and happiness
Positive Psychology
This refers to a person's own cognitive and affective evaluations of their life
Subjective Well-Being (SWB)
True or false: happiness can be measured scientifically
True or false: If you win the lottery, you will be significantly happier compared to other people
False
Using this for one hour a day reduces the probability of you being completely satisfied with your life by 14 percentage points
Social Media
True or false: healthy people are always happy
False
This refers to one's evaluation of one's life as a whole
Life satisfaction
Our brain often lies to us about how happy getting or achieving something will make us
Miswanting
True or false: our life circumstances have a significant impact on our happiness
False
All that glitters is not gold-- having a lot of this thing will actually not significantly improve happiness
Money
This is made up of two components: cognitive and affective
Subjective Well-Being
This is a word that describes the relationship between two things that often exist together at the same time (hint: NOT causation)
Correlation
People who are happier tend to live ________ (longer vs shorter lives)
Longer lives
A study in the 1960's showed that college students in this time period thought that this was the most important thing for happiness
Meaningful philosophy of life
True or false: having good grades will improve your happiness
False
A psychological phenomenon in which people tend to help others when they are in a good mood
Feel-Good Do-Good Phenomenon
This is an empirical method where people are asked about their feelings, attitudes, beliefs, etc. and provides valuable information in assessing happiness
Self Report
People who are happier will see positive effects on this system of the body
Immune system
True or False: Cheerfulness levels in your younger years can actually somewhat predict if you'll be employed in your 20s and 30s
True
Active social media use is not necessarily the problem. It is this type of social media use that can lower happiness
Passive
Describes the mistaken idea that "knowing is half the battle"
The G.I. Joe Fallacy
This refers to how your life feels
Affective well-being
There is evidence that this type of music can affect your happiness levels positively
Happy/upbeat music
After hitting this salary, your happiness does not improve very much even if you were to double or triple this value
$75,000
When you graph a person's happiness compared to their income, the result is NOT exponential growth of happiness based on income, but a _________ relationship
Logarithmic