PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Psychology
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Psych 243 lecture 4 aspects of happiness. Understanding our personal strengths is a positive actions of positive psychology. 1998 seligman discusses positive aspects of living. Positive psychology recognizes the negatives of the world and works to change them by strengthening the positives. Appeal to authority: going to a source to find out what some person says is true. Rogers: early psychologist associated with actualizing (can keep becoming all you possibly can: maslow focused on actualization (can reach point of potential) A sense of having a positive life purpose. Some sense of our control over our own life. Positive involvement in the lives of others with whom we are related and who care for us. Write a letter of appreciation to someone who has helped you. At the end of the day, write down three good things that happened to you. Write a personal story about you at your best and read it over next week.
