PSYC 1070 Chapter 1: Textbook notes #1 (with Strength Quest textbook Preface)
30 Apr 2015
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Strength quest (preface: wrong students leaving colleges because the lack of certain skills, knowledge, and abilities. To produce excellence, you must study excellence. : top achievers set goals slightly above their level, whereas low achievers set very high goals. Chapter 1: welcome to positive psychology (page 3-20) What is wrong with people? vs. what is right about people? . 1946, make a living treating mental illness; 1947, research on mental illness: what about making people better lives and nurturing genius . Treatment is not just fixing what is broken, it is nurturing what is best within ourselves. : goal of psychology should be to replace neurotic misery with ordinary unhappiness . Sigmund strengths: positive psych approaches a balance of both the patient"s weaknesses and their.
