PSYC 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Positive Psychology, Eudaimonia, Motivation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3302
• Professor: John Zelenski

Document Summary

Looking ahead (proposal, exam review: mini-review: religion, become familiar with the via strengths & virtues, understand the background of the strengths, become familiar with assessment of and initial findings on strengths, consider critiques of the strengths. Religion provides meaning to life, social support and respect. Religion makes people happy when circumstances are not as good. In places where circumstances are really good, people that are non-religious make out of it (happier in general) that people that are religious. Dsm diagnosis or rules for mental disorders: classification (not taxonomy per se) common language to talk about things. Depression: potential benefits of both, common language, directs research & assessment, p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ides (cid:858)(cid:373)ap(cid:859) fo(cid:396) othe(cid:396) i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s. Important differences: categories vs. dimensions, number of constructs (aspires to) greater validity, more universal. It is not clear to draw the line for a correct classification of a disorder in the dsm: to sacrifice diagnostics, some researchers sacrificed the validity of the research.