Positive Psychology Exam questions and
answers
What is positive psychology? - ✅✅The part of psychology that deal with experinces, dispostions,
contexts, and process in an individual and groups that facilitate well-being, achievement and harmony.
What are the three criteria for postivity? - ✅✅Choice, pleasure and values
What are two different methods and explain them - ✅✅Correlational Approach & experimental
approach.
Explain the replication issue - ✅✅The replication issue has to do with the fact that there is not
enough studies trying to be replicated. This came into light when a few were replicated and did not
produce the same results. An issue is also how the p-value can change a lot.
What is the experience sampling method? - ✅✅This is when you get participants to answer daily
questions about their experiences
Positivity offset? What side do they most likley sit on? - ✅✅People rarely sit at a neutral state of
happiness or sadness. Rather they mainly will sit on the positive side
What is a mood compared to a trait? - ✅✅Moods are less intense, slower to change, and
ambiguously caused. While traits are stable emotions.
What are the common componets of emotions? - ✅✅Appraisal, physiological, expressive, subjective,
actions
What is appraisal? - ✅✅Appraisal is the cognitive part of emotions, automatic evaluations
What is the James Lange Theory? - ✅✅Your heart rate increases when you experience fear
, What is the undoing hypothesis? - ✅✅In essence what the hypothesis states is that people might
hold in the effects of their positive emotions to counterbalance the effects of their negative emotions.
What is the ducenne Smile? - ✅✅It is a distince real smile that involves squinting the eyes
What did the study on happy rats show us? - ✅✅There is a difference between liking and wanting
something. They would giggle and smile when they liked something.
What are the two different views of emotion? - ✅✅Basic Emotion View and the Dimensional View
What is the basic emotion view? - ✅✅This is taht there is a distinc and clear list of emotions. Ie:
sadness, fear, disgust, joy, anger)
What is the dimensional view? - ✅✅Organuized based on similarity, more general causes, more on an
open plane.
What is FACS? - ✅✅Facial Action Coding System
What are action tendencies? - ✅✅Emotions will make us do things
What is the broaden and build model? - ✅✅Postive emotions seem to broaden focus and this allows
people to build resources for the future.
Globeling vs Localling? - ✅✅Globeling task is about how much people focus on the big picture.
Looking at shapes and seeing the big shape is seeing the bigger picture
What would most likely happen if someone would watch a happy video? - ✅✅They would more
inclined to attend social events or stuff
Is there a race bias in facial recognition? - ✅✅Yes there is, but joy is pretty universal
answers
What is positive psychology? - ✅✅The part of psychology that deal with experinces, dispostions,
contexts, and process in an individual and groups that facilitate well-being, achievement and harmony.
What are the three criteria for postivity? - ✅✅Choice, pleasure and values
What are two different methods and explain them - ✅✅Correlational Approach & experimental
approach.
Explain the replication issue - ✅✅The replication issue has to do with the fact that there is not
enough studies trying to be replicated. This came into light when a few were replicated and did not
produce the same results. An issue is also how the p-value can change a lot.
What is the experience sampling method? - ✅✅This is when you get participants to answer daily
questions about their experiences
Positivity offset? What side do they most likley sit on? - ✅✅People rarely sit at a neutral state of
happiness or sadness. Rather they mainly will sit on the positive side
What is a mood compared to a trait? - ✅✅Moods are less intense, slower to change, and
ambiguously caused. While traits are stable emotions.
What are the common componets of emotions? - ✅✅Appraisal, physiological, expressive, subjective,
actions
What is appraisal? - ✅✅Appraisal is the cognitive part of emotions, automatic evaluations
What is the James Lange Theory? - ✅✅Your heart rate increases when you experience fear
, What is the undoing hypothesis? - ✅✅In essence what the hypothesis states is that people might
hold in the effects of their positive emotions to counterbalance the effects of their negative emotions.
What is the ducenne Smile? - ✅✅It is a distince real smile that involves squinting the eyes
What did the study on happy rats show us? - ✅✅There is a difference between liking and wanting
something. They would giggle and smile when they liked something.
What are the two different views of emotion? - ✅✅Basic Emotion View and the Dimensional View
What is the basic emotion view? - ✅✅This is taht there is a distinc and clear list of emotions. Ie:
sadness, fear, disgust, joy, anger)
What is the dimensional view? - ✅✅Organuized based on similarity, more general causes, more on an
open plane.
What is FACS? - ✅✅Facial Action Coding System
What are action tendencies? - ✅✅Emotions will make us do things
What is the broaden and build model? - ✅✅Postive emotions seem to broaden focus and this allows
people to build resources for the future.
Globeling vs Localling? - ✅✅Globeling task is about how much people focus on the big picture.
Looking at shapes and seeing the big shape is seeing the bigger picture
What would most likely happen if someone would watch a happy video? - ✅✅They would more
inclined to attend social events or stuff
Is there a race bias in facial recognition? - ✅✅Yes there is, but joy is pretty universal
