PSYCHOLOGY OF
WELLBEING
PS10186
, IMPORTANT NOTES FROM 1.1 AND MOODLE
Assessment (“course requirements”)
Your grade for the unit is based on your average mark for the three online Moodle quizzes (>40%)
To pass, you also need to sufficiently complete your wellbeing e-portfolio (“course requirements”).
Regardless of your quiz scores.
Quizzes
Multiple choice
‘Corrected for guessing’ (like for M + B) – you loose marks for getting the answers wrong
Each quiz will be available for 7 days and will open after a Friday’s LOIL session and close the
morning before the following Friday’s LOIL session
Launched in the assessment section of the Moodle page
Where to get support talk to Thalia -MAKE SURE I HAVE EXTRA TIME ON QUIZZES
They are computer marked so you get your mark and feedback immediately once you finish
Practice quiz open throughout the unit opens Friday 5th February
Quiz 1 questions draw on content from LOIL 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 content – opens Friday
19th February closes Friday 26th February midday
Quiz 2 questions draw on content from LOIL 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 content – opens Friday 12th March
closes Friday 22nd March midday
Quiz 3 questions draw on content from LOIL 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 content – opens Friday 26th April
closes Friday 30th April midday
,Wellness Weekly E-portfolio
Each week you will be asked to complete the exercises and reflect on how they have impacted
on your wellbeing.
In the e-portfolio will also be a range of surveys and activities so you can start building up a
picture of what makes you, personally, happy.
The e-portfolio is pass/fail. That is, you need to pass it in order to pass the unit, regardless of
what grade you get in the quizzes.
The e-portfolio will be submitted at points through the semester (as above) to check in on your
progress and receive formative feedback. These are the same as the quiz closing dates
The deadline for submission of the e-portfolio for your SUMMATIVE assessment (i.e. this is a
mandatory submission in order to pass the unit) is before 12 noon Thursday May 20th.
Try to stick to the word limit, but if you go over by a little bit it is okay
, What we’re going to cover in this unit
Session 1.1 What is positive psychology and what to expect from this unit
Session 1.2 How is wellbeing measured?
Sessions 2.1/2 What people think will make them happy (aka. your lying minds) Behavioural
economics – our tricky mind and how it tricks us – why we want the wrong things
What science says does make us happy
Sessions 3.1/2 Gratitude, Savouring and Social Connection (me)
Session 4.1 Mindfulness research (me)
Session 4.2 Mindfulness practice (Dr. Liz Marks- clinical psychologist)
Session 5.1 Self-Compassion research (Dr. Anna Strudwick- clinical psychologist)
Session 5.2 Self-Compassion practice (Dr. Anna Strudwick)
Session 6.1/2 Healthy Behaviours (Dr. Chris Jacobs- medical doctor)
(Reading week)
Sessions 7.1/2 Resilience (Ian Fairholm)
(Inter-semester break)
Sessions 8.1/2 Creating better habits 1 (me) Behavioural economics view of how you use
biases to create new good habits and break old bad habits
Sessions 9.1/2 Creating better habits 2 (me)
Sessions 10.1/2 Thinking bigger and what we’ve learned (me) How some of the research
has been used to try to push whole populations to more positive behavioural change,
used by governments, policy and advisory boards
WELLBEING
PS10186
, IMPORTANT NOTES FROM 1.1 AND MOODLE
Assessment (“course requirements”)
Your grade for the unit is based on your average mark for the three online Moodle quizzes (>40%)
To pass, you also need to sufficiently complete your wellbeing e-portfolio (“course requirements”).
Regardless of your quiz scores.
Quizzes
Multiple choice
‘Corrected for guessing’ (like for M + B) – you loose marks for getting the answers wrong
Each quiz will be available for 7 days and will open after a Friday’s LOIL session and close the
morning before the following Friday’s LOIL session
Launched in the assessment section of the Moodle page
Where to get support talk to Thalia -MAKE SURE I HAVE EXTRA TIME ON QUIZZES
They are computer marked so you get your mark and feedback immediately once you finish
Practice quiz open throughout the unit opens Friday 5th February
Quiz 1 questions draw on content from LOIL 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 content – opens Friday
19th February closes Friday 26th February midday
Quiz 2 questions draw on content from LOIL 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 content – opens Friday 12th March
closes Friday 22nd March midday
Quiz 3 questions draw on content from LOIL 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 content – opens Friday 26th April
closes Friday 30th April midday
,Wellness Weekly E-portfolio
Each week you will be asked to complete the exercises and reflect on how they have impacted
on your wellbeing.
In the e-portfolio will also be a range of surveys and activities so you can start building up a
picture of what makes you, personally, happy.
The e-portfolio is pass/fail. That is, you need to pass it in order to pass the unit, regardless of
what grade you get in the quizzes.
The e-portfolio will be submitted at points through the semester (as above) to check in on your
progress and receive formative feedback. These are the same as the quiz closing dates
The deadline for submission of the e-portfolio for your SUMMATIVE assessment (i.e. this is a
mandatory submission in order to pass the unit) is before 12 noon Thursday May 20th.
Try to stick to the word limit, but if you go over by a little bit it is okay
, What we’re going to cover in this unit
Session 1.1 What is positive psychology and what to expect from this unit
Session 1.2 How is wellbeing measured?
Sessions 2.1/2 What people think will make them happy (aka. your lying minds) Behavioural
economics – our tricky mind and how it tricks us – why we want the wrong things
What science says does make us happy
Sessions 3.1/2 Gratitude, Savouring and Social Connection (me)
Session 4.1 Mindfulness research (me)
Session 4.2 Mindfulness practice (Dr. Liz Marks- clinical psychologist)
Session 5.1 Self-Compassion research (Dr. Anna Strudwick- clinical psychologist)
Session 5.2 Self-Compassion practice (Dr. Anna Strudwick)
Session 6.1/2 Healthy Behaviours (Dr. Chris Jacobs- medical doctor)
(Reading week)
Sessions 7.1/2 Resilience (Ian Fairholm)
(Inter-semester break)
Sessions 8.1/2 Creating better habits 1 (me) Behavioural economics view of how you use
biases to create new good habits and break old bad habits
Sessions 9.1/2 Creating better habits 2 (me)
Sessions 10.1/2 Thinking bigger and what we’ve learned (me) How some of the research
has been used to try to push whole populations to more positive behavioural change,
used by governments, policy and advisory boards
