Freaking QUIZ 1

Question 1

What is growth mindset?

Answer 1

The ability to be developed and learn based off of error

Question 2

What is positive psychology? Why do we need it?

Answer 2

Psychologist conduct research on the mind brain and behavior in order to learn why we feel happiness love and resilience.

Question 3

Who are important people in positive psychology

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Martin E.P. Seligman (began movement)
Aristotle (studied human virtue)
Religious figures (Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha)
Abraham Maslow

Question 4

why do we need positive psychology

Answer 4

It provides us with scientific insight to a positive and happy mind and helps us to understand why we feel positive feeling. This is important because this can improve satisfaction in life and help us to live a happier life

Question 5

Positive psychology

Answer 5

Optimal functioning

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What about cultural differences

Answer 6

Positive psychology is biased towards western cultures. Western culture and Eastern culture can affect samples

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Phenomenology

Answer 7

The study of subjective human experience

Question 8

Reductionism

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The practice of understanding a phenomenon by breaking it down into component parts

Question 9

Negative instances and occurrences

Answer 9

Tend to hold more weight than positive

Question 10

Well being is separated into two factors

Answer 10

Hedonic
Endaimonic

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Hedonic well-being

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Experiencing high levels of pleasure and low levels of displeasure

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Subjective wellbeing

Answer 12

Composed of three factors, high levels of positive affect, low levels of negative affect, and high levels of life satisfaction

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Eudaimonic wellbeing

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Actualizing ones potentials or finding a sense of purpose in life

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Authenic happiness model

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Is by Seligman, and it attempts to bridge the gaps between ;;;hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives

Question 15

Three routes of happiness

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Pleasant life-maximizing pleasure able experiences through developing skills
Good life- orchestrating ones life to routinely engage in activities that draw ones personal strength
meaningful life- pursuing goals that one believes are meaningful or a connection for something larger than oneself

Question 16

5 elements to good life PERMA

Answer 16

Positive emotions
Engagements
Relationships
Meaning
Accomplishments

Question 17

Western culture

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Hedonic perspective- individualism and value satisfaction

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Eastern culture

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Eudaimonic- collectivism and contentment, suffering is necessary

Question 19

PERMA plus 4

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Physical health
Economic security
Environment
Mindset

Question 20

Positive Psychologists value

Answer 20

Empirical research over anecdotes

Question 21

Scientific method

Answer 21

Observe
Ask a research question
Develop a hypothesis
Gather data
Analyze
Form a conclusion

Question 22

What is a correlation

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How strongly a pair of variables relate to one another and change each other

Question 23

Confirmation bias

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People tend to seek out, notice, and remember evidence that supports what they already believe rather than trying to find evidence that tests those beliefs

Question 24

Empirical research

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A set of practices that enables investigators to draw conclusions based on systematically collected evidence

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Reliability

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The consistency of a measure

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Validity

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Refers to the extent to which a method of measurement actually measures what it claims to measure

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Replicability

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Capability of two or more studies to produce the same result

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Happiness set point

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A point to which their happiness returns after major life events

Question 29

What is the happiness pie

Answer 29

A circular graph depicting the factors they believe account for peoples levels of happiness

Question 30

What are the factors in the happiness pie

Answer 30

Set point(50%) Circumstances(10%) Intentional Activities(40%)

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Generalization

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Act of taking the results from the same pool and applying them to a larger population

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Happiness gap

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Disadvantages of groups of color-particularly African Americans

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Intersectionality

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Meaning that people have complex multiple overlapping identities

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Sensations

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Fleeting experiences of pleasure

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Hedonism

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Suggests that the pursuit of pleasure or the satisfaction of desires is that proper aim of life and is an ethical pursuit

Question 36

Sensations

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Seconds/pleasure

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Emotions

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Minutes to hours/joy pride and love

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Mood

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Hours to weeks/cheery good humor

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traits

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Decades/positive affectivity extraversion

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Emotions occupy space around two dimensions

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Valence- very positive to very negative Arousal- intensely arousing or activating to not at all arousing or activating

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Positive affectivity

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The degree to which you might think of yourself as a happy person

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Behavioral action tendencies

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Urge to engage in some specific behavior when experiencing a specific emotion

Question 43

Duchenne smile

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This is smiles that are believed to signal authentic or genuine happiness and involve the contraction of the orbiculares oculi muscle surrounding the eye

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Internal validity

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Degree of confidence that the causal relationship that you are testing is not influenced by other factors or variables

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External validity

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Generalizability to other types of people likely limited by having only a certain group in a sample

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Upward spiral theory of lifestyle change

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Those with positive emotion experiences might be healthier because they are active connected and completely engaged

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Undoing hypothesis

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Another mechanism through which positive emotions are hypothesized to be related to better physical health

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Multimodal

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Multiple methods for measure in constructs and hope that they converge in a way that provides reliable data

Question 49

Broaden and build model by Barbara fredrickson

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Used a mathematical formula to identify a critical positivity ratio that states to have a flourished life we must have a mean ratio of 2.9 positive thoughts for every negative thought