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Positive Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| personal ecology - the "person-enviroment fit" | the optimal state of adaption between ones bodily function and the positive physical requirements and demands of ones chosen lifestyle: work, love, and play |
| humanism | the doctrine that the needs and values of human beings take precedence over material things and, further, that people cannot be studies simply as part of the material world |
| extistentialism | the idea is that a persons experience is primary |
| phenomenology | which attempts to describe a persons conscious experience in terms of meaningful for that individual |
| pleasure | encompasses a family of subjective positive psychological states that range from raw feels of the body to the higher pleasures of the mind |
| anhedonic | incapable of experiencing pleasure |
| Peak-end theory | when we think about our past pleasures, our memories are influenced by the intensity of the immediate experince as well as how it ended -- this reflects that our recollection of pleasure is not a faithful summary of its individual moments |
| Duration neglect | to overlook how long the experince lasted (pleasant or unpleasant) |
| mere exposure effect | refers to our tendency to "like" objects to which we are frequently exposed, even if subliminally |
| endowment effect | refers to our tendency to like objects given to us, even if we did not especially want or value them in the first place |
| Hedonic treadmill | we continually adapt to improving circumstances to the point that we always return to the point of relative neutrality |
| emotions | more complex: they involve not just subjective feelings but also characteristic patterns of physiological arousal, thoughts, and behaviors (specific action tendency) |
| hedonic capacity | the ability to experience positive feelings (now referred to as positive affectivity) |
| Savoring | our awareness of pleasure and our deliberate attempt to make it last |
| Soteria | positive opposite of a phobia. An irrational attraction to something because it brings pleasure |
| hedonism | maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain |
| eudaimonia | being true to one's inner self |
| Polyanna Principle | pervasive positive selectivity in thought: pleasantness predominates in thought |
| truism | past behavior predicts future behavior. However, not if you believe you can do something different |
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