PSYC575 EXAM3 LCC and RCC and jeopardy

The daily life of Hirayama, the main character in the Wim Wender film Perfect Days, is very routinized. One of his lunchtime habits is to take analog photos of trees. Which concept from PSYC 575 does this habit best represent and why?

Harmonious passion, because the photos bring him steady enjoyment.

According to Steger (2024)'s paper on regenerative positive psychology, which pillar of traditional ("as usual") positive psychology, introduced at the field's onset, has received the least empirical attention?

positive institutions

At the end of the Wim Wender film Perfect Days, the main character, Hirayama, plays shadow tag with a man he just met who discloses that he is dying of cancer. Which concept from PSYC 575 does Hirayama's behavioral choice best represent and why?

The undo effect, because playfulness helps both men overcome negative emotions.

Steger (2024)'s paper on reorienting wellbeing science to meet pressing world realities presents three pillars to serve as goalposts for a new regenerative positive psychology. Which of the following is NOT one of these pillars?

Design sustainable wellbeing interventions.

According to the definition of intellectual humility presented in lecture, which of the following is the CORE COMPONENT of that definition?

Recognizing the limits of one's own knowledge.

According to the reading by Oishi & Westgate (2022), which of the following personality traits is most associated with living a psychologically rich life?

Openness

A longitudinal study of married couples was used to develop an objective, dyad-level measure of positivity resonance. According to evidence presented in lecture, which of the following was NOT predicted by objectively assessed positivity resonance?

lower divorce rates

Fredrickson (2016) defines love-the-emotion as a micro-moment of positivity resonance, during which three elements emerge between individuals at the same time. Which is NOT one of these elements?

relationship commitment

Demitri generally enjoys meeting new people but lately has been relying on his friends and has refrained from seeking new connections. He recently lost his job and is experiencing a lot of stress, making it difficult to find and invest in new people. According to TA Zoe Hansen's lecture on weak ties, which concept below offers an explanation of Demitri's situation?

optimal foraging theory

According to the 2024 article by West and her coauthors on improving social connection with weak ties and strangers, which two variables below are independently associated with young adults' better mental health and social well-being?

positivity resonance with weak ties & positivity resonance with strong ties

Although altruistic responding comes at a cost to the self, it is theorized to have evolved over millennia through natural selection from the neural and behavioral systems for:

retrieving offspring in distress.

According to Nelson et al. (2016), doing nice things for others (versus for yourself) increases positive emotions relative to the control condition. Which of the following is proposed as an explanation for this pattern of findings?

Prosocial behavior often involves opportunities to improve one's relationships with others, whereas self-focused behavior is often solitary.

According to evidence presented in lecture, which of the following individual characteristics distinguishes extraordinary altruists (e.g., kidney donors) from other people?

greater value placed on distant others' welfare

The reading by Curry et al. (2018) entitled "Happy to Help?" mentioned several theories about the causes of human kindness. Which of the following is NOT one of the mentioned theories?

Conditional altruism: People will be kind to others when time and resources permit.

A randomized experiment presented in lecture compared five different gratitude activities to an active control condition (Regan, Walsh & Lyubomirsky, 2023). Among activities that used the format of a gratitude list, which type of list produced greater well-being benefits relative to the control condition?

an unconstrained list of people and things

How is Algoe's (2012) Find-Remind-and-Bind Theory of gratitude distinct from prior theorizing on gratitude?

It describes how gratitude serves relational goals.

According to studies presented in lecture, how does gratitude expressed in an East Asian Confucious Culture differ from gratitude expressed in the United States?

More emphasis on self-improvement and less on bodily contact, relative to the U.S.

According to the reading entitled Three Good Tools (Adair, Kennedy & Sexton, 2020), the 3 interventions tested led to improvements across a range of metrics. On which metric did participants show the greatest improvement?

negative measures of well-being (e.g., depression)

This theory explains when and why people exploit known social resources versus explore new ones

Optimal Foraging Theory

Positivity Resonance has 3 cross-person features —synchrony in caring nonverbal cues, synchrony in biological responses, and this

Co-experienced Positive Emotions

Positivity resonance is said to be the most elemental building block of this social resource

Love

Lacking social connection takes more years off life than this unhealthy habit

Smoking cigarettes

Economic inequality predicts Positivity Resonance with strangers through this mechanism

Community Trust

This is the good feeling that can arise when witnessing another person’s good fortune

Sympathetic Joy

This is the health-related biomarker that kindness to others improves

Leukocyte (CRTA) gene expression

Similarity between altruistic responding and this class of behaviors in non human mammals is evidence that altruism evolved via natural selection

Active offspring care

This is the most supportive way to respond when someone else shares good news

Active-constructive responding

In the simulation of smiles model, this is triggered by eye contact

Facial Mimicry

Altruism is helping another person even when it comes with this

Personal cost

This effect is evidence that gratitude has group-level functions

Witnessing effect

This is the theory that gratitude functions to strengthen binds with responsive interaction partners

Find, Remind & Bind Theory

This cognitive bias lingers on following emotion experience to color future interpretations

Appraisal Tendency

This emotion arises when one’s own good fortune is attributed to another person’s agency and goodwill

Gratitude

This new idea states that increasing individual level well-being is an insufficient goal for positive psych

Regenerative Positive Psych

This is the third dimension of a good life beyond happiness and meaning

Psychological richness

This is recognizing the limits of one’s own knowledge and demonstrating it interpersonally

Intellectual Humility

Frequent contact with nature predicts greater well-being through these mechanisms

Emotion Regulation Strategies

This is a complex societal problem with many possible solutions

Wicked Problem

Experiencing this in the past makes people more compassionate and altruistic

Adversity

This predicts dispositional compassion in offspring up to the three decades later

Parental warmth

Links between altruism and well-being are tighter in these societies

Individualistic societies

This attribute to neighborhoods predicts more acts of kindness

Racial diversity

extraordinary altruists

These people place greater value on distant others’ welfare.

attachment insecurities

These dampen the prosocial benefits of gratitude

the belief that the world is safe and enticing

Believing this more strongly predicts environmental exploration

This nightly health behavior increases people‘s gratitude

sleep

Work teams with leaders who have this trait are evaluated as more innovative.

trait gratitude

Cities can build these to promote high quality connections between strangers.

sidewalks and/or cross walks