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PSYC 101 1st EditionLecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture N/AOutline of Current Lecture I. The study of positive psychologyCurrent Lecture We should focus on those things that are more adaptive-SolomonThe study of positive psychology. –Building on strength.Refer to things : joy, happiness ect..How do you use those positive emotions?Does your school or job, your environment, does it foster positive behaviors and characteristic?Examples :Job like Walmart-Not paid adequatelyPrison- Constant reminder of things you did wrong.Detroit- No community support.Using that positive strength in your daily life, being able to. - Broaden and Build Theory-Barbara Fredrickson Think about when you’re stressed out, this limits your thinking and cognitive abilities. Your attention tends to narrow. Positive emotions like joy and peace will make you more flexible and broadening of emotions will lead to healthier life style. Ex: meditationUltimately leads to LIFE SATISFACTION.What is Normal mental health?- Deci and Ryan (2008) Feelings of competenceAutonomous supportRelatedness- RyfPersonal growthPurpose lifeAutonomySelf-acceptancePositive relations with othersEnvironmental mastery*Nudging is part of what area of psychologyBehavioral Economics Fun theoryAreas of Psych- Clinical Psychology: The diagnosis and treatment of abnormal behavior.Assessment, evaluating mental healthiness. Problems of adjustment, anxiety, eating disorder, schizophrenia, less severe mental.Cannot proscribe medication. PhDs cannot, MDs can. Developmental Looks at how people grow and change and develop across the life spam. How do their thinking?How do their inner personalities?How do things that went right or wrong?*Conservation: Children at a certain age mastering the ability of knowing quantities vs appearances. - Social Psych:Helping behaviors, compliance, stereotypes, group behavior, aggression. Attitudes, schemas, attraction.Inner personal behavior Emphasize the experience of people as they exist within groups, and as they interact with other people. It also examines the experience of the group. Ex: sports games, people will shout and act a certain way they wouldn’t by themselves.What other people say or how they act.- Industrial OrganizationalIndustrial: Focused on selection, hiring. The interview process, can you develop testthat will identify people who will succeed? How one will do if they wanted to be a police officer.Organizational: How to make organization run more efectively. EX: Looking how people communicate efectively.What makes you happy at your job?Job fulfillmentHow does the leader communicate more efectively?Ex: 360 feed back from your subordinates and superiors (everyone that they efect and communicate with).- Personality: Consistency of personality across time and situation. Ex: Marshmallow Experiment = delayed gratification.- Biological:What happens in the brain when someone is addicted(cocaine) ?Is mental illness inherited or is it environmental?What are the efects of medication and are they helpful?*Exams:Definitions & applications.Development of a research question (typically grounded in theory).Steps in researchForming of a hypothesisDesigning a study to test the hypothesisCollect dataAnalyze dataReport the findings Presentations Scientific


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