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• What is postive psychology

  Look at factors that help people blossom
  what enables individuals and communities to thrive
  Positive psychology focusses on applying the partical elements of other fields of psychology to positively impact wellbeing

• What themes are important in positive psychology

  3 broad areas
  
  1 positive subjective states(positive emotions/feelings)
  2 positive traits (stable within but different between individuals)
  3 positive institutions

• Complete model of mental health keyes and lopez

  Two independent dimensions well being and mental illness
  high well low illness=flourishing high well high ill is struggling low well low ill is languishing low well low ill is floundernig

• What is complete mental health according to keyes and lopez

  A high level of wellness and a low level of mental illness

• Learning objective 3 a brief history of positive psychology

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• What is the oldest idea of wellbeing and what is the critique?

  Hedonism (maximising sensitory pleasure) can be refuted by stating these pleasures are often short lived and we sometimes seek lower pleasure activities wellbeing appears more complex)

• What did aristotle argue in terms of emotions and what did he called it

  Search for the golden mean, balance things and avoid extremes the pursuing of the golden means leads to balance and a state called eudimonia

• How did the rise of christianity influence our views of happiness

  internal battle between spirit and flesh

• How did the renaissance change this

  Artists where considered having a gift, the rise of science lead to an increase in rationality and the social world became more important.

• How did individualism lead to the rise of romanticism

  Individual emotions were seen as an important part of fulfillment this also lead to the idea marriages should be based on emotions