PSY3055 Quiz

Capitalisation is the relational process of savouring positive life events by sharing them with responsive relationship.

Pessimistic explanatory style is characterised by:

Brief, low intensity episodes of physical activity, such as walking, can result in significant same-day mood improvement

Which of the following are sources of stress?

Diener's SWLS stands for

Satisfaction with life is defined as:

Which of the following will help build resilience?

According to Lyubomirsky (2007) which of the following will make people substantially happier?

Whose positive psychology 1504 class is the most popular course in the history of Harvard University?

Who wrote ‘Learned Optimism’?

Ryan and Deci (2001) proposed a ‘motivation continuum’. Which of the following are NOT to be found on this continuum?

Optimism has been associated with which of the following?

The Power of Positive thinking is popularly associated with:

Which of the following are characteristics of eustress?

Transformational leadership is characterised by which of the following:

Positive psychological interventions for people with dementia could help in which of the following ways:

What is the name given to stress that is ‘good’ for you?

Plato is famous for the idea of the ‘Golden Mean’.

Social cognitive theory is associated with

What are two elements of the PERMA model?

The Harvard Study of Adult Development began in

Which researchers were first to document the beneficial effects of keeping a gratitude journal?

Optimistic explanatory style is characterised by

Limitations of the Satisfaction with Life Scale are:

Happiness and Flow are considered as related states within the work of:

Which of the following psychological constructs does not exist?

What are the four types of social support?

Diener (1984) argues that subjective well-being is composed of:

Who offered an Aristotelian critique of Peterson and Seligman’s ‘Character Strengths and Virtues’?

How many citations has Gulliford et al’s (2013) ‘Recent Work on the Concept of Gratitude in Philosophy and Psychology'?

Who debunked the ‘positivity ratio’ that for every one negative emotion we experience we need 3 positives to compensate?

Geraghty, Wood & Hyland (2010) showed that gratitude journaling could be used effectively to treat social phobias.

The ‘best possible self’ exercise was created by

Meditation has the following benefits

Which of the following is NOT a character strength in the VIA classification?

Whose 1990 study compared the constructs of hope and optimism cross-culturally identifying prototypical ‘rules of hope’

The Satisfaction with Life Scale is measured using

Martin Seligman came up with the idea of post-traumatic growth?

Besides athletes, which of the following constitute pillars of a positive sports organisation?

What is the practice of ‘Non-judging’ within mindfulness practice?

Research into happiness has generally found that happy people:

Agency thinking and pathways thinking are associated with

The underlying assumption of learned optimism is that we can work on changing our explanatory style.

Growth mindset encapsulates the idea that you can do anything you want to if you believe you can ?

Who’s claimed that for every one negative emotion we experience we need three positive emotions to compensate?

Planning and time-management are two cognitive ways of coping with stress

Hedonic wellbeing is based on the notion that increased pleasure and decreased pain leads to happiness

Which psychologist is associated with: personal growth, autonomy, environmental mastery, self acceptance and purpose?

The PERMA Profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016) measures 5 elements of PERMA + health, negative emotion and loneliness.