Reflection Paper On Positive Psychology

If the response to a test defines you in a certain way, think very carefully about how you answered the questions because the answers you provide to the questions reveal what you actually [think you] would do, which

According to the Center, “Positive psychology is the systematic study of human strength, resilience and qualities that empower individuals and group of people to succeed” (Positive Psychology Center, 2014). Positive psychology’s founders learned through study that people usually place more emphasis on what goes wrong in their lives; they focus on their failures. For instance, divorce, financial obligations, or losing a job. It is imperative to comprehend the characteristics of undesirable experiences in an individual’s life. As an alternative to focusing on failure, focus can be placed on the positive situations in life and understand those are the occasions worth living for. Positive psychology emphasizes strengths and weaknesses, magnifying the positive aspects of life, and healing the effects of negative experiences. Positive psychology focuses on a person’s strengths and the hope of something larger then oneself to lead individuals to a more meaningful

In this video, Achor (2011)discusses how instead of simply trying to help or cure individuals with some problem in their life, positive psychology tries to take average people and find ways to reach their full potential. Many people believe that if they change the circumstances in their environment, they can generate greater amounts of happiness and well-being in their lives. Achor (2011) maintains that only about ten percent of long term happiness can be predicted by the external world, a whopping ninety percent is dependent upon what happens within our minds; and by changing the way people process the world around them, it can ultimately change how they perceive reality. Approximately twenty-five percent of job success can be predicted by

Every aspect of psychology excites me. As I take more classes, and my exposure to different theories and perspectives as well as topics and fields increases, I want to know more. The possibilities and applications of psychology are endless. When I wrote about peace and positive psychology for a career paper in an English class, my thoughts on psychology's impact expanded. Influenced by humanistic psychology, positive psychology focuses not only on the health or unhealthiness of an individual, but his or her potential to thrive and live a happy life. The prior theories have opened up the long-neglected opposite side of the spectrum of one’s psychological health. I am inspired by countless psychologists, but notably Abraham Maslow and Martin

Thinking about this topic I found myself stuck in some aspects. Taking these tests and thinking about who I am to myself and my peers is not a regular thing I have thought about before. After assessing, I had learned things about myself that I have never noticed before, such as how independent I am, my honesty, my mean side, my less confident sides, and all my weird sides. While taking these tests I also had thought about how I was brought up into the world.

Many of us may have specific personality traits (dispositions to behave in a certain way, as expressed in the behavior of a person in a variety of circumstances, Cervone & Pervin, 2013) that might be negative, particularly when coping with stress and or facing challenges. Some of these traits have been due in part to inherited factors, copied from our parents or caregivers during childhood, or due to environmental influence. Regardless of the case, there is good news for all of us; we can change our brains. However, it takes persistent practice and time. We can develop new habits by training our brain.

The PRP also uses PPIs and the PERMA model to get across the motto of, “Teaching it, embedding it, and living it” to their students. Positive psychology interventions and the PERMA model work in conjunction to create positive feelings, behaviors and thoughts.

Positive psychology is a growing field in psychology that focuses on understanding and encouraging personal growth and potential (Kramer, Bernstein, & Phares, 2014). The article, “Why Happiness Isn’t Always Good: Asians vs Americans” published by Time Magazine and written by John Cloud looks at a study done by Janxin Leu, that examines positive emotions. The focus on this paper is to look at how research studies are portrayed in the public sphere, specifically looking at Cloud’s article.

The video discussion consists of a speech given by Martin Seligman entitled The New Era of Positive Psychology. In this speech, he discusses the use of psychology to make people happy. Attempting to define what is happy. What does it mean to be happy? Before, Psychology use to be to answer what was wrong with you. Seligman wanted to change that. He saw the state of Psychology as it was good, not good, but also where it could go.

Positive psychology, which has emerged recently, is the scientific study of human thriving. Psychology traditionally focuses on dysfunction—on people with mental illness or other psychological problems and how to treat them. Positive psychology, by contrast, is a relatively new field that examines how ordinary people can become happier and more fulfilled. In his 1998 APA presidential address, Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, argued that psychology had become too focused on curing mental illness according to a disease model, and that, for all intents and purposes, it had become a “victimology” (Seligman, 1998). What was needed, he averred, was a new “science of human strengths,” a positive psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).

Over the course of this class I have learned several concepts pertaining to the subject of Psychology, but most importantly, the human body and process their minds go through. I have developed a deep insight of how fascinating and complex our body and mind are. For the past 10 days, I have kept track of my daily life routines and habits that have affected my sleep and the dreams I experience during that time. Throughout this paper I will discuss my dreams, how my psychological, physical, and diet health contributed, and how this experience changed my views on proper mental and physical.

Please note that the purpose of this document is for personal assessment of a section of a group assignment and as such it should not be consider as complete (no abstract, table of content, introduction, conclusion, etc. pertaining to the assignment as a whole, but there will be an introduction, conclusion and reference list pertaining to the positive psychology perspective of the group assignment).

We as a people are under constant stress. Stress to do better in both educational and social aspects of life. Psychology is all around us. We are presented with it in all aspects of life. I use psychology when I go the gym. My parents use psychology to get my brother and sister to do something. It just happens that my brother and sister use psychology to get around my parents, well parenting. Do they know they're doing it? No. Do they do it well? Yes, yes, they do. The truth behind what I’m trying to say is, no matter what we do in our everyday life something, everything can be related back to psychology. Though we don’t know everything about the mind or why we truly do what we do in some aspect of life, as an educated society of people can use psychology to make sense of it. I’m finding explanations for my emotions, temperaments, and thoughts with many of the theory’s we have discussed throughout the semester so far. Now as we go through our days we strive for perfection. We strive for more. But why? This can be seen through almost every module in this textbook.

In his article “What is the Good Life? Positive Psychology and the Renaissance of Humanistic Psychology” (2008) published in The Humanist Psychologist; Brent Dean Robbins addresses the issue of humanistic psychology’s cold reception of positive psychology, despite the clear similarities between the two and their common past. The article lists the three main reasons that might have caused this division and proceed to scrutinize and criticize them all. It also defends a holistic approach to virtue theory, one that combines qualitative (idiographic) and quantitative (nomothetic) methods to virtue theory. In the end, the author’s conclusion is that humanistic psychology should be proud with its contribution to the development of positive psychology. On the other hand, positive psychology should be wary of to the historical lessons leant by humanistic psychology the hard way.

Is how aggressive an individual is determined only by his or her genes? Whether psychological and behavioral traits are purely determined by genetics, solely influenced by socialization, or a combination of both has been a highly debated topic within the field of psychology known as the “nature-nurture issue.” Today, although still disputed, a good number of psychologists and other scientists concur that genetics and the environment mutually influence and intermingle with one another (Myers, 2015). We can partially credit this fizzling-out of the nature-nurture debate to the discoveries made in twin studies. Twin studies are used to help delineate the genetic components of behavior and the socially and culturally influenced components (Myers, 2015). This type of study enables researchers to examine the extent to which genetics and environment have an effect on the development of traits and behavior. For example, in lecture, we learned that a common and natural experiment used in twin studies is to examine a set of twins who grew up in the same household and a set twins who grew up in separate households (K.W. Brown, personal communication, August 29, 2017).