PSYCH 3BA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gautama Buddha, Four Noble Truths, Positive Psychology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3BA3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Abnormal psychology looks at what can cause individuals distress and dysfunction. Positive psychology looks at what can enhance happiness, life satisfaction, and relationship with others and. We can use the same criteria to judge positivity mental order that we use to assess or evaluate mental with society. disorder. Both areas deal with statistically abnormal qualities in individuals. Positive psychology is more likely to adopt a scientific approach to the issues of positive psychology than is the humanistic approach. Hedonism (aristippus): only personal pleasure or happiness. Eudaimonia (aristotle): both personal pleasure and harmonious relationships with others. Living a life of moral and intellectual virtue. Life is a constant struggle between desires and real-world and moral constraints. Different motives, or archetypes, all built in. Optimal self-development is achieved by integrating the complexes into an integrated whole called the self. Mandala = symbol of self, which is most important. Argued that psychology abandoned more positive aspects of its mission after wwii.