PSY 3109 Study Guide - Positive Psychology, Prefrontal Cortex, Pleasure
Document Summary
Purpose: understand and build strengths and human resliiecne. See through rose colored lenses (positive thinking = better physical/mental health, stabilized arousal) ), reach (don"t catastrophize), endurance (don"t let adversity get you down long) Optimists believe that good events have permanence related to their traits and abilities. Boys trained for self-resilience while women trained for passivity and dependence. Core relational themes of emotions we have covered. Optimism, happiness, subjective well being, overall concept of signature strengths. Subjective well-being: a measure of cognitive and affective evaluation of one"s life. Satisfaction with important life domains, positive affect, low levels of negative affect. Not related to gender, age, income, having children or health. Is related to marital status and religious faith. Hedonic treadmill: the tendency to adjust rapidly to good or bad events. Emotional highs and lows are not sustained over time as we quickly revert to our happiness set-point/baseline (50% genetically determined, 8% due to demographic factors)
