PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Memory Consolidation, Mudita
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Snyder"s theory of hope optimism plus pathways thinking. Pathways finding different ways to achieve your goals. Goals approaching life in a goal-oriented way. Agency believing that you can instigate change and achieve these goals. Often between our current state and our goals, there are obstacles. Pathway thinking involves going through alternate paths to get to your goal. Simple reframing can help you see alternative pathways. Emotions can be broken down to affective pathways (ancient, limbic motivated, fight/flight, etc. ) and physical components and cognitive processes. We have some control over our physical states and can affect our affective states. Our cognitive factors can take our emotional system and stabilize it. So negative emotions can stabilize leading to a bad mood, or depression. Then we can trigger ourselves when things happen in our world making us feel bad. If negative emotions can be seen as a combination of feedback processes, we can see more factors that affect them.
