PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positive Psychology, Learned Helplessness
18 Oct 2016
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Promotion of positive states, and trying to maximize the experiences in your life. The scientific and applied approach to uncovering people(cid:495)s strengths and promoting their positive functioning: scientific approach on how body operates: If one eats breakfast, he/she will have more energy feel. What you do on a daily basis can affect your mood better: fatigue, stress, bereavement etc all can affect our moods. Balancing foci of applied psychology: there(cid:495)s no such thing as right/wrong. What you deem as right may be wrong to other people (vice versa) Norms are highly debatable: what is wrong with people? (study of deficits) Psychology often practiced as a deficit model where we try to understand why a behaviour is not norma: what is right with people? (study of assets) Psychology is more of a continuum: superior functioning ----------------------------------------- poor functioning. In between is what we do on a daily basis.
