PSY100Y5 Lecture 7: Lab 7- Positive Psychology and Meditation
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Positive psychology: psychology as a discipline should be concerned with both: Strengths as it is with weakness: what does it mean to be self-actualized, to reach your potential/ performing optimally. Building the best things in life as it is in repairing the worst. Making the lives of normal people fulfilling as it is with healing pathology. Wellbeing and happiness will fall under the definition of positive psychology. Meditation has been known to increase immune system, help relax, relieve stress, etc . Experiment involves a pretest, posttest, and design. Measure attention and memory->meditate->measure attention and memory again. Independent variable is related to the idea of pretest/posttest, whatever is in between is the independent variable (in this case it is mediation) Dependent variable is the number of seconds you spend on the second slide, staring at the dot in the middle until it stops moving (focus and attention)
