PSYCH 243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Positive Psychology
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Chapter 1: introduction to positive psychology and well-being. Psychology"s three missions: developing intelligence, curing mental illness, enhancing everyday living. Positive actions/attributes of positive psychology: understanding limits, self-responsibility, useful living, caring for others, becoming our potential, keeping optimism and hope, holding beneficial values for self and others. Positive psychology recognizes the negatives of the world. Enhanced well-being is expressed in joy, optimism, humor, and hope. Well-being involved psychological, physical, social, and emotions states of health. Martin seligman"s enhanced living of a meaningful life. Ways to know the world: personal experience, appeals to authority, prepared insight, sudden revelation, using logical reasoning, using science (does not create reality, just measures it) Psychology does not control anyone, only helps those who cannot help themselves. Positive psychology: study of well-being, including happiness, composed of 7 behaviors. Assumes freedom for making choices and responsibility for them. Three pillars of positive psychology: positive social institutions, positive traits: virtues and strengths, positive emotions: confidence, optimism (hope), trust, humor.
