Positive Traits
One of the achievements of Positive Psychology is the establishment of a system for classifying.
What are Positive Traits?
Number of character strengths.
What is 24?
Why competitiveness is not a character strength.
What is, it may diminish rather than elevate others?
Intervening before problems occur to prevent their appearance.
What is Primary Prevention?
Benign Forgetting.
What is the process where negative information about the self is not easily recalled?
The characteristic response style present from infancy and due mostly to your constitutional or hereditary factors.
What is temperament?
Name 3 character strengths.
Wisdom & Knowledge, Courage, Humanity, Justice, Moderation, Transcendence, creativity, bravery, love, teamwork, forgiveness, appreciation of beauty, curiosity, persistence, kindness, fairness, modesty, gratitude, judgement, integrity, social intelligence, leadership, prudence, hope, love of learning, zest, self-control, humor, perspective, spirituality.
A type of emotion that narrows our thought-action repertoires.
What is negative emotion?
Eating healthy to manage diabetes is an example of ________.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Flow.
What is a subjective state that people report when they become engaged in controllable but challenging tasks or activities that require considerable skill and are motivating?
It's the value I place on myself as a person, based on how much I like what I see in myself.
What is self-esteem?
Name six higher-order virtues in Peterson and Seligman’s model of character strengths?
What are Wisdom, Courage, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence?
The type of happiness involving immediate sensory gratification.
What is Hedonism?
The happiness intervention showing the largest increase in happiness according to Seligman.
What is Gratitude?
Name two activities that lead to Flow experiences.
What are sports, social activism, aesthetic experience, creative writing, scholarship and computer based activities?
By planning for the worst, I make sure I've taken care of every single detail. Then if the worst happens, I won't feel so badly.
What is Defensive Pessimism?
Name the virtue that involves Emotional Strength.
What is Courage?
The immediate effect of positive emotion.
What is broadening our thinking? (And also, our thought-action repertoires.)
Noticing positive things and screening out negative things about ourselves.
What is Selective Attention.
According to Seligman, psychology is really good at this.
What is helping people not be miserable?
Happiness and subjective well-being.
What are feelings? Happiness is often a temporary affective (a feeling), while SWB includes overall consistent life evaluation of both affective (feelings) and cognitive (evaluations).
The strength with the strongest relationship with life satisfaction.
What is Hope?
A type of coping that acts as a resource in the long term, when dealing with uncontrollable stressors.
What is Positive Reappraisal?
An expectation that more good things than bad will happen in the future.
What is Optimism? Extra points for what are Dispositional Optimism?
Here, it's all for one and one for all.
What is a Collectivist Culture?