PSYCH 3BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Extraversion And Introversion, Western People, Eudaimonia
1 Mar 2017
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The principles of pleasure: understanding positive affect, positive emotions, Pleasure principle: the demand that an instinctive need be gratified regardless of the consequences. Affect: a person"s immediate, physiological response to a stimulus. Involves appraisal of an event as painful or pleasurable. Emotion: judgments about important things involving appraising an external object as salient for our own well-being. Happiness: a positive emotional state that is subjectively defined by each person. Subjective well-being: a combination of positive affect (in the absence of negative affect) and general life satisfaction (i. e. , subjective appreciation of life"s rewards) 20-item scale that quantifies the two dimensions of affect: valence and content. We can experience positive and negative affect at the same time because they are independent and have different correlates. There are relationships between the traits that make up the two, yet the relations between each are small.
