[PSYCH 3BA3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Criteria of positive abnormality: positive psychology is about how to live well and how to optimize our life experiences. It"s about how to have or experience feelings, thoughts, and beliefs that are conducive to personal satisfaction, personal growth and our relationship to others. Definitions of positive psychology: seligman & csikszentmihalyi (2000: the capacity for love and vocation (also seen in freud) Maslow: humanist view, agreed that self-actualization is the highest motivation of humans. Fromm: a humanist individual, biophilia: love for humanity and nature. Frankl: to choose how one sees the way of life. William bennet and virtues (1995: the ideas pertaining to positive psychology are at least ~3000 years old, however the actual theory of positive psychology was formed in the 90s. Socially valued sorts of activities: moral contentment: the feeling that we have done right by those around us.
