Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hedonic Treadmill, The Roots, Mental Scale

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Adjusting to modern life: the technological advances of the past century have not led to perceptible improvements in our collective health and happiness; many argue the quality of our lives and our sense of personal fulfillment have declined. Self-help books: many are completely valueless - only a select few are actually helpful because, dominance of psycho-babble hip but vague language that is ill-defined or meaningless clarity is sacrificed for hip jargon that prevents effective communication. The psychology of adjustment: clinical psychology problems and disorders, adjustment. Types of correlation research: naturalistic observation subjects, case study, surveys, researcher engages in observation of behaviour without intervening directly with eg. innateness of facial expressions of spontaneous emotions (matsumoto and. Willingham: in-depth investigation of an individual subject, a single case does not provide much basis for deriving general laws of behaviour, structured questionnaires designed to solicit information about specific aspects of participants" behaviour.