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All of these things must match one another in order for the goal to be realistic.
What are prevention vs. promotion goals? - ✔✔Prevention: careful, pessimistic
Promotion: promotes positive view of self, optimistic, more likely to take chances
What is our working definition of meaning, and when does the search for meaning occur in our lifespan?
- ✔✔1. OUR LIVES MATTER
2. OUR LIVES MAKE SENSE
3. WE HAVE A PURPOSE OR A BIAS FOR OUR ASPIRATIONS AND PURSUITS IN LIFE
- Peaks at 18 and 65-- curve in between those times.
What is operant conditioning for increasing/decreasing the likelihood of behaviors? Draw chart. - ✔✔
What are characteristics of harmonious passion, and what are characteristics of obsessive passion? -
✔✔Harmonious: you do it because you love it, to learn and grow, not to win or lose
Obsessive: doing it for others or for money, for status, or to win, not because you love it
What are the 4 PREP communication danger signs? - ✔✔1. Escalation
2. Withdrawal/avoidance
3. Invalidation
4. Negative interpretation
,What is ACR, and why is it the best of all 4 styles of responses to good news? Draw chart. - ✔✔ACR =
Active Constructing Response. Most effective way to respond, giving both the deliverer of good news
and the listener a positive outcome.
What are the key characteristics of extroverts and introverts? - ✔✔EXTROVERTS:
- Exterior/external
- Think out loud
- do-think-do
- interaction
- breadth of interests
INTROVERTS:
- internal/interior
- think quietly
- think-do-think
- concentration
- depth of interests
What are the components of optimistic explanatory style vs. the components of pessimistic explanatory
style? - ✔✔OPTIMISTIC:
- Not me: external- life events stem from the external circumstances rather than from individual
character traits and actions
- Not always: unstable causes are temporary and are likely to change in the future
- Not everything: specific scope- only a finite portion of a persons life is affected
PESSIMISTIC:
- Me: internal- the problem is with ME, not the external factors
- Always: stable causes are permanent and unlikely to change
- Everything: global scope- every aspect of life is affected
What was the nun study? - ✔✔- The nuns who wrote about more positive feelings --> lived longer.
, - Only positive feelings predicted longevity
What was the Pittsburgh Common Cold Study? - ✔✔- Individuals injected with the common cold virus
- Negative-minded people felt the effects of the cold for longer than positive minded people
- Shows how positive emotions can make you feel better faster-- negative emotions don't have as much
impact on your immune system
What was the chocolate-and-radish experiment? - ✔✔- One group given chocolate chip cookies,
other group given radishes.
- The ones with the radishes were in the same room as those with the chocolate chip cookies
- Both groups had to complete the same task and the group that didn't get cookies didn't do as well
as the group that did.
- Proved positive priming
What was the marshmallow study? - ✔✔- 1960's
- Study of self regulation/willpower
- Child was offered 1 marshmallow immediately or 2 if they waited a certain period of time. If they
had the willpower to wait and not eat the first, they'd get a second, doubling their prize.
- Found to be linked to success later in life... delayed gratification = more success
What was the Fiji study? - ✔✔- 1995
- Exposure of TV to Western community in Fiji
- By 1998, Fijian school girls has body disparagement, body shape preoccupation, and began purging to
control weight.
- Study showed how exposure to media causes insecurities-- investigated specific psychological
and social mechanisms mediating adverse side effects of media on youth
What was the Napperville Zero Hours study? - ✔✔- School kids had to do more engaging
physical activity before class, and those did better on exams.
- Kids with higher fitness scores have higher test scores (specifically target heart rate)
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