PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Insomnia, Herbert Benson, Meaningful Life
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Posiive psychology: negaive vs posiive topics: not a lot of posiive aspects about it (e. g. ways of prevening stress instead of the efect of stress, ways of living a beter life by prevening. Psychology should be concerned with both posiive and negaive aspects: building good things in life. Marin seligman: father of posiive psychology: studied happiness, 3 ways of being happy (pillars): ** Having the good/engaged life: idenify strengths and talents and you use them in diferent areas. Being in a low state: ime passes by quickly. You use your talents for something greater than you. 6: take care of your body, develop strategies to cope with stress and hardships. Learn to forgive: not doing so is correlated with depression. Invest ime and energy on friends and family (people you love) A lot of these are shown in children"s books. Social readjustment scale: stress indicator: percent given, go back to raw score. Herbert benson: discovered the relaxaion response.
