Positive Approach Assumptions Quiz

Positive Approach was officially created by:

• Skinner

• Speilberg

• Seligman

• Stevenson

Most positive psychologists would argue that psychology has for too long been dominated by a:

• Focus on genealogy

• Focus on pathology

• Focus on physiology

• Focus on criminology

The focus on positive psychology is needed so as to understand:

• What makes people rich

• What makes people different

• What makes people flourish

• What makes people healthy

Acknowledgement of free will: positive approach believes that:

• People are dominated and effected by the requests of others

• People are controlled by the views of others

• People are not in charge of their emotions and how they direct their emotions.

• People are in charge of their emotions and how they direct their emotions.

Why might the positive approach be in stark contrast to the other psychological approaches. The other psychological approaches

• Scientific

• Determinist

• Nomothetic

• Ideographic

Denier and Seligman conducted research on students, their relationships and how much time they invested into these. They found that:

• Those that had the weakest ties were the happiest

• Those that had the strongest ties were the unhappiest

• Those that had strongest ties were happiest

Authenticity of goodness and excellence refers to:

• Feelings of persecution and worry being as natural as anxiety and profound stress

• Feelings of happiness and goodness being as natural as anxiety and stress

Authenticity of goodness and excellence.: What view has dominated psychology according to positive psychologists?

• Belief that happiness is centrally important for study more so stress or anxiety

• Belief of happiness being less authentic than stress and anxiety

Authenticity of goodness and excellence: Seligman stated we have inherent _________ _________. What?:

• Signature please

• Signature strengths

• Signature weaknesses

• Signature constraints

Authenticity of goodness and excellence: Positive approach changes the focus of psychology:

• By celebrating the questionable things rather than magnifying the certainties

• By celebrating the worst things rather than magnifying the good things

• By celebrating the good things rather than magnifying the worst