PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Positive Psychology, Learned Helplessness, Psych
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How to harness motivation to change: control: how you act, perceive, think, feel, knowing the right way to act, perceive, think, feel, easier to know than control. Self-control: balancing when to have control or let go. Change our schemas, filters, lenses, cognitive habits. Reframe bad things into challenges we can overcome. Sometimes it"s hard to find motivation in the first place: we don"t always have a sense of what makes us feel alive. Take theoretical knowledge turn into skill-set. 1998/9: start of positive psych: marty soligman became president of apa, did the dog learned-helplessness expts in the 1970s. Helped explain depression, attributional tendencies: psych was focused on negativity, wanted to expand on positivity. Wanted to stop approaching the person as a problem. Drives often have to do with aversion & minimizing dysfunction. Sometimes the most beautiful sides of ppl come out during tragedy.