Terms of Endearment Three Lives of Happiness Intelligence across time Mental States This and That
100
What is the science and applications related to the study of human psychological strengths?
Positive Psychology
100
What is the life concerned with eudemonia, losing time, and engaging in activities that use your strengths?
The Good Life
100
This researcher is closely associated with multiple intelligences theory.
Howard Gardner
100
What is a flexible state of mind and openness to novelty?
Mindfulness
100
What beneficial outcome was inversely correlated with the positive emotional content in the diaries of 180 Catholic nuns?
Risk of mortality
200
What is The Way, the energy that surrounds everyone?
Tao
200
What is the life concerned with positive perceptions in bodily senses and emotions
The Pleasant Life
200
Recognizing emotions in others, managing emotions, and motivating oneself are all elements of what concept.
Emotional Intelligence
200
What is the state of mind that results as a response to the intrinsic rewards associated with experiencing absorption?
Engagement
200
This prayer asks God to grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer
300
What is the term for cultures who value interdependence in daily living?
Collectivist
300
This life is concerned with knowing your signature strengths and using them for something larger than yourself, typically in a positive institution.
The Meaningful Life
300
This perspective is one used in the past to explain why certain groups were dominated and oppressed by other groups. It says that certain groups have racial and cultural deficiencies.
Culturally deficient perspective
300
What type of person consistently experiences a state of mind where bad events are explained as internal, stable, and global?
Pessimist
300
This kind of support is important for successful aging?
Instrumental support
400
What is "bouncing back"
Resillience
400
This positive psychological variable involves timelessness and intense concentration.
Flow
400
Which EQ researcher assesses EQ by asking test-takers how they would respond in certain situations?
Goleman
400
The belief that you can accomplish what you want is at the core of what concept?
Self-efficacy
400
What strength can be found in all cultures that may buffer people from developing mental disorders?
Resilience
500
What is a positive emotional state that is defined individually or subjectively?
Happiness
500
This positive psychological construct is a person's highest personal strength and can be assessed using the Values in Action Inventory of Strength.
A Signature Strength
500
Which test asks test-takers to identify the emotions in photographs of faces?
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
500
The search for the sacred is widely accepted as what positive psychological variable?
Spirituality
500
What time orientation is most typical in Eastern cultures?
Valuing a simultaneous appreciation on past, present, and future (circular)






Positive Psychology Midterm 2014

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