PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Positive Psychology, Humanistic Psychology
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Positive psychology is about subjective levels of subjective experiences well-being hope, optimism, happiness, satisfaction. Individual level: individual traits love, courage, interpersonal skills, aesthetics, perseverance, originality: group level: civic virtues for citizenship altruism, civility, moderation, tolerance, work ethic. Raising children is giving kids a buffer to help against hard time and is more than just fixing what is wrong with them. Psychology just sees people as passive foci, and just focuses on reducing illness. Buss thinks that our environment is so different from what our ancestral living arrangements are like so or bodies and minds are misfits from what they used to be. Subjective wellbeing, optimism, happiness and self-determination are key to positive psychology: subjective well being is what people mean when they say they are happy, a person"s values and goals mediate between external events and quality of experience (diener)
