Week 8 Flashcards
(17 cards)
What is subjective well-being?
A scientific term for happiness and life satisfaction.
What is “conative balance” also known as?
Desiring wisely.
I.E. What are your desires and how do you control them?
Define “karma”
Our intentions (or the motives behind an action) determine the nature of the consequences we experience in this life and the next.
What is “interbeing” in relation to Buddhism?
The idea that all things are related.
True or False:
When a person is aware of interbeing, this creates less compassion toward all things.
False, it creates additional compassion.
What is “impermanence” in relation to Buddhism?
The idea that nothing is permanent.
What is the first noble truth of Buddhism?
Essentially, life is unsatisfactoriness.
Define “affective forecasting”
Our predictions at our emotional states.
Do we tend to do better at predicting positive or negative emotional states?
Positive.
What is “impact bias”?
A type of affective forecasting error. The tendency to overestimate the impact of a future even in intensity and duration, whether positive or negative.
What is “mispredicting” in relation to affective forecasting?
The concept that we incorrectly predict the impact of an event.
Which is more pleasurable: the anticipation of a reward or the reward itself?
The reward anticipation.
What is “operant conditioning”?
An individual makes an association between a particular behavior and a consequence.
Think rats and food lever.
Define “conation”
A natural tendency, impulse, striving or directed effort.
What is the “default mode network”?
A group of brain regions that seem to show lower levels of activity when we are engaged in a particular task like paying attention, but higher levels of activity when we are awake and not involved in any specific mental exercise.
What is the “modular view of the mind” or “modularity”?
Each of us is a contentious “we” - a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another.
True or False:
The modular view of the mind reinforces the idea of “I’.
False, it suggests we are more of a “we” than an “I”.
