Positive Psychology Exam questions and
answers
6 virtues - ✅✅wisdom and knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence
Transcendence - ✅✅The teaching that God, by nature, is beyond this world and beyond the
comprehension of human beings.
Broad and Build Theory - ✅✅Positive emotions promote activity
Happiness DOES NOT correlate with - ✅✅Wealth
Health
Age
Retirements
Hotness
Gender
Having kids or pets
Happiness DOES correlate with - ✅✅Relative Wealth
Marriage
Societal equality
Self-Esteem
Non-Material Values
Relative Deprivation Principle - ✅✅Perception that one is worse off than those to whom one
compares oneself decreases happiness
Adaption-level phenomenon - ✅✅our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income)
relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
, Opponent-Process Theory (not tested) - ✅✅Emotions fade, leaving opposite emotion
Community Psychology - ✅✅Intervention Levels
Primary Level: Prevention
Secondary Level:Stop progress in early stages
Tertiary Level: Manage advanced cases
Aversive Therapy - ✅✅create aversion to alcohol, fingernails
aversive - ✅✅irritating or unpleasant
token economy - ✅✅an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort
for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
applied behavior analysis - ✅✅the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior
rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - ✅✅a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by
Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
happiness - ✅✅subjective well-being
feel-good, do-good phenomenon - ✅✅happy people are nicer
humanist therapy - ✅✅A form of therapy based on the philosophy of humanism, which emphasizes
people's free will to change, rather than past conflicts.
Behavioral Therapy - ✅✅focuses on changing behavior by identifying problem behaviors, replacing
them with appropriate behaviors, and using rewards or other consequences to make the changes
answers
6 virtues - ✅✅wisdom and knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence
Transcendence - ✅✅The teaching that God, by nature, is beyond this world and beyond the
comprehension of human beings.
Broad and Build Theory - ✅✅Positive emotions promote activity
Happiness DOES NOT correlate with - ✅✅Wealth
Health
Age
Retirements
Hotness
Gender
Having kids or pets
Happiness DOES correlate with - ✅✅Relative Wealth
Marriage
Societal equality
Self-Esteem
Non-Material Values
Relative Deprivation Principle - ✅✅Perception that one is worse off than those to whom one
compares oneself decreases happiness
Adaption-level phenomenon - ✅✅our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income)
relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
, Opponent-Process Theory (not tested) - ✅✅Emotions fade, leaving opposite emotion
Community Psychology - ✅✅Intervention Levels
Primary Level: Prevention
Secondary Level:Stop progress in early stages
Tertiary Level: Manage advanced cases
Aversive Therapy - ✅✅create aversion to alcohol, fingernails
aversive - ✅✅irritating or unpleasant
token economy - ✅✅an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort
for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
applied behavior analysis - ✅✅the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior
rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - ✅✅a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by
Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
happiness - ✅✅subjective well-being
feel-good, do-good phenomenon - ✅✅happy people are nicer
humanist therapy - ✅✅A form of therapy based on the philosophy of humanism, which emphasizes
people's free will to change, rather than past conflicts.
Behavioral Therapy - ✅✅focuses on changing behavior by identifying problem behaviors, replacing
them with appropriate behaviors, and using rewards or other consequences to make the changes
