PSYC 406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Unconscious Mind, Positive Psychology, Divergent Thinking
3 Feb 2017
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Chapter 9: assessment of normality and human strengths. Since wwii, clinical psychology has focused on what is wrong with people and how to alleviate or diminish a host of symptoms and syndromes. Positive psychology = the scientific and practical pursuit of optimal human functioning. It is about valued subjective experiences; well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past) and hope and optimism (in the future) and flow and happiness (in the present). At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits. An important element of this movement is positive psychological assessment, which can be defined as the measurement of specific human strengths such as the aforementioned ones. Assessment of creativity: assessment of creativity remains problematic due to difficulties in establishing a definition of creativity, there are no gold standards" for assessment due to the criterion problem which is the difficulty in defining creativity.
