PSY 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exposure Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Monica Seles

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Ray Winters

Document Summary

Three factors that influence an individual"s happiness and sense of well-being. Each individual is given a questionnaire and the score obtained is referred to as the person"s subjective sense of well-being. Factors influencing happiness: life circumstances: this refers to what a person"s life situation is right now. For example, rich or poor, married or single, male or female, age, health status, ethnicity, education level: genetics (inborn characteristics): this refers to inborn characteristics of the individual. Examples would be: fearfulness, emotional excitability, energy level, competiveness, sociability. An individual"s temperament is a major factor in the emotions and moods a person experiences on a regular basis. These choices (intentions you have) are critically dependent on a person"s implicational beliefs about self, world and others, i. e. , their world view, their vision of reality, their hierarchy of values (e. g. , pursuit of money versus family life)