Chapter 12: Happiness and the Positive Emotions

Question 1

Three Dimensions of Good Life

Answer 1

a happy life
a meaningful life
a psychologically rich life

Question 2

Resilience

Answer 2

• 55%-85% are in this category
  people who aren’t distressed and find meaning through learning and wisdom after their traumatic experience(s)

Question 3

Trauma Responses (3)

Answer 3

Resilience
Delayed
Recovering

Question 4

Resilience Paradox

Answer 4

it is so difficult to measure, and predictions of resilience are weakly correlated with actual outcomes, but you can tag different resilience aspects in a person

Question 5

Flexibility sequence (3)

Answer 5

1. Context sensitivity: evaluate (context)
2. Repertoire: select regulatory strategy
3. Feedback monitoring: monitor decide whether to stop, maintain, adjust, or select another regulatory strategy

Question 6

Yumbo Minsky

Answer 6

happiness interventions are used and though they work, doing them too often doesn’t because people easily habituate, especially to positive emotions

Question 7

Enthusiasm

Answer 7

pleasure from anticipating a reward
- nucleus accumbens is activated when given an unexpected reward, and decreased when expected reward doesn’t appear
- more local focus

Question 8

Contentment

Answer 8

beta endorphins release dopamine, which slows down behaviour
- perhaps helps with memory
- hypothalamus responsible for the satiation response to eating
- more heuristic dependency

Question 9

Pride

Answer 9

a person’s emotional response to his/her achievement or being admired by people

Question 10

Authentic pride

Answer 10

based on the accurate assessment of one’s accomplishments/worth of admiration

Question 11

Hubristic pride

Answer 11

based on the idea that someone is inherently better than others and their ability isn’t attributed to effort

Question 12

Attitude

Answer 12

combination of beliefs, feelings, and behaviour directed toward someone, something, or a category
- longer lasting than an emotion

Question 13

Russell et al’s Study

Answer 13

love is a prototype!
- love fits into certain contexts and sentences but others

Question 14

Prototypical love examples

Answer 14

parent and child
romantic relationships
close friends
family members

Question 15

Bowlby’s 3 Biological Foundations for Bonding within Families

Answer 15

Attachment
Sex
Caregiving

Question 16

Cognitive shift

Answer 16

a necessary component of amusement; a shift away from perceived target/meaning to thinking about it from another perspective
- background does matter

Question 17

Awe

Answer 17

elicited by oneself feeling small in comparison (to something), or finding something difficult to comprehend
- facilitates cognitive accommodation

Question 18

Cognitive accommodation

Answer 18

taking in an environment and taking good note of it instead of operating on one’s usually narrow lens
- need for cognitive closure and certainty

Question 19

Hope

Answer 19

a high agency in a challenging situation and generating plans to achieve what one has set out to do

Question 20

Optimism

Answer 20

an expectation that mostly good things will happen
- unrealistic optimism is very high in the us
- tend to perceive a higher level of agency