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A person's self-assessment of their ability to exert control describes which of the following?
Perceived control
Research on creativity has been focused on 4 areas: Process, Press, Product, and which of the following?
Person
Which of the following is the oldest for of the pursuit of happiness?
Hedonism
This idea that certain behaviors and even emotions can spread through social networks.
Social Contagion
There are five domains for post-traumatic growth (PTG): Personal strength, Relating to others, Appreciation for life, New possibilities, and which of the following?
Spiritual change
A personal or group search for the sacred in life. This describes which of the following?
Spirituality
Erik Erikson's model of development is an example of what kind of model?
Stage Model
According to Robert Plutchik's (1980) emotion wheel, the emotion of awe is made up of which two emotions?
Surprise and fear
Which of the following has been found to contradict the Fight-or-flight response?
Tend-and -befriend
Polyvagal theory hypothesizes which of the following?
That activity of the vagus nerve to the heart is involved in social behavior.
This involves fostering a relationship with a spiritual being who is "higher" or "greater" than oneself, such as the Judeo-Christian conception of God.
Vertical transcendence
Aristotle said there are three types of friendship; utility which is based on mutual benefits, pleasure which is based on fun and interested, and ________ which is the highest of the three and is involved with emotional concern and compassionate care.
Virtue
The energy available to the self that is defined as a "positive feeling of aliveness and energy". This describes which of the following?
Vitality
This method for increasing positivity looks at the strengths the company has and then try to leverage those strengths to make.
Appreciative Inquiry
Aspects of "Storge" style of love include which of the following?
Emotionally intimate.
Which of the following would be an example of a normative life event?
Getting married.
A relative lack of self-focus and self-preoccupation, an ability to acknowledge mistakes, openness to others' opinions and ideas, and an appreciation of the many ways people contribute to the world, are said to be which of the. This describes which of the following?
Humility
The founder of positive psychology is which of the following?
Martin Seligman
A strong inclination toward a self-defining activity that one likes (or even loves) and finds important, and which one invest time and energy. This describes which of the following?
Passion
The moments when we perform at a level beyond our normal level of functioning. This describes which of the following?
Peak performance
The assumption that youth possess resources that can be developed, nurtured, and cultivated. This define which of the following?
Positive youth development.
Which type of wisdom allows a person to navigate inevitable conflicts and translate character strengths and virtues into concrete action in real-life situations.
Practical Wisdom
Which of the following describes deliberate practice?
Practice that is focused, planned, concentrated, and effortful.
This type of prayer is focused on the worship of God, without any references to one's circumstances, needs, or desires.
Prayers of adoration
The flexibility in response to changing situational demands, and the ability to bounce back from negative emotional experiences. This describes which of the following?
Resilience
When resilience is described as a multifaceted construct, it is made up of: recovery, reconfiguration, and which of the following?
Resistance
A cyclical process that guides the development of excellence in many areas of expertise. This describes which of the following?
Resonance
Hypoegoic state is defined as which of the following?
Self-awareness is low and attention is focused on concrete rather than abstract stimuli.
According to Dunn, wellness is made up of the five states. Which of the following is not one of those states?
Skills for understanding people.
A pessimist is defined as which of the following?
Someone who has broad expectancy that outcomes will not be good.
There are three pillars, or areas of focus, for positive psychology, they are the individual, the group, and which of the following?
The subjective
An approach to calculating subjective well-being that says that subjective well-being is derived from overall evaluations that reflect how we evaluate and interpret our experiences. This describes which of the following?
Top-down processing
A feeling in which someone remains optimistic while simultaneously allowing unavoidable hurt and pain into one's life. This describes which of the following?
Tragic Optimism
Adult playfulness is composed of fun-loving motivation, spontaneity, and which of the following?
Uninhibitedness
States of optimal physical, mental, and emotional health. This describes which of the following?
Wellness
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An emphasis on valid knowledge of our interior lives and psychological realities; the obverse (other side of the coin) of this proverbial coin involves honest presentation of oneself to other people. This describes which of the following?
Authenticity
Oxytocin is known as "the love hormone", "the molecule of love", or the "cuddle hormone". This hormone has been associated with which of the following?
Bonding
An approach to calculating subjective well-being that creates an overall measure of our current well-being by examining how satisfied we are with domains of life and then combine the various satisfactions into a totality of current well-being. This describes which of the following?
Bottom-up processing
Employee engagement is the opposite of which of the following?
Burnout
Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of our brain to do which of the following?
Change and adapt over time.
_________ involves an intellectual awareness of the other's situation.
Cognitive empathy
This type of meaning is what people search for when they need to believe that some design or order exists in the universe.
Cosmic Meaning
The ability to think of, and plan, for the worst-case scenario of a situation describes which of the following?
Defensive Pessimism
The Life Orientation-Revised (LOT-R) Scale measures which of the following?
Dispositional Optimism
The idea that optimism is a way in which people interpret the causes of past event describes which of the following?
Explanatory optimism
Positive emotionality describes which of the following terms?
Happiness
Compared to emotions, moods are:
More diffuse, more global, and more pervasive than emotions.
Subjective well-being is the combination of happiness, satisfaction, and which of the following?
Neuroticism
When optimal adjustment to aging was accomplished by accepting that certain capacities decline with age and finding ways to compensate for those inevitable losses. This describes which of the following?
Selective optimization with compensation.
A feeling of emotional or physical tension. This describes which of the following?
Stress
The feeling of being constantly busy and pressed for time, describes which of the following?
Time Poverty
An occurrence that is "out of the ordinary; creates long lasting problems and substantially interrupts personal narrative". This describes which of the following?
Trauma
Unrealistic optimism is defined as which of the following?
wishful thinking.
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Virtues are defined as:
Acquired excellences in character traits, the possession of which contributes to a person's completeness or wholeness.
An appreciation of the beautiful and the sublime. This describes which of the following?
Aesthetic
________ refers to the level of how honest, trustworthy, modest, compliant, tender-minded, and altruistic a person is.
Agreeableness
Which scholar from the Psychodynamic school of psychology talked about the importance of what they called "Social Interest"?
Alfred Adler
With regards to positive psychology, which of the following describes assimilation?
Alterations or adjustments to our routines that allow us to keep striving without major alterations in goals, assumptions, or our sense of identity.
Traditional, marriage has been studied by looking at heterosexual couples. When we add in couples from the LBGT+ community, we find the benefits of marriage:
Are extended to these communities.
With regards to the Highly Sensitive Person Trait uses the acronym D.O.E.S., where D refers to a persons depth of processing, O refers to easily overstimulated, S refers to sensitive to subtle stimuli. What does the E refer to?
Empathy
A positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. This describes which of the following?
Employee engagement
Which of the following could be a definition of wisdom?
Exceptional breadth and depth of knowledge about the conditions of life and human affairs.
The holistic sensation present when we act with total involvement.... It is the state in which action follows upon action according to an internal logic which seems to need no conscious intervention on our part. This describes which of the following?
Flow
This positive construct is made up of hope, optimism, self-efficacy, resilience.
Psychological Capital (PsyCap)
The "good" in "the good life" refers to which of the following?
the good refers to the factors that contribute most to a well-lived and fulfilling life.