Lecture 8 Helplessness & happiness • Why did Seligman and maier use a tripartite design? • What are the long term effect sof uncontrollable stressors • What does delta p = 0 Pavlov • Pavlov’s apparatus • 2 different procedures: classical conditioning and then punishment • because using dogs in experiment‚ noticed that if dogs had been through classical conditioning experiments‚ could not be used in avoidance experiments o but adverse for the opposite (avoidance exp dogs 1st could learn
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Finding a job with a good salary is a vital task in supporting a family. I have a wife and a 3-year-old daughter to provide for‚ with another child on its way. It can be somewhat daunting to think of ones family responsibilities. Earning a good salary can go some way to alleviating that burden and bringing security to the family unit. With numerous bills to pay‚ it becomes imperative to earn more money than you spend. Being the recipient of many household bills is not something I enjoy‚ but with my decent
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Cheating Our Brains into Happiness Jane McGonigal is a prominent game developer who has dedicated her recent years to developing games that try to help the world out instead of just entertaining a few. In the tenth chapter of her book Reality is Broken‚ she argues that happiness levels in the United States and around the world are alarmingly low‚ and people are very depressed. She then introduces a term called “Happiness Hacking”. McGonigal herself defines it as “…the experimental design practice
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forced me to grow up faster than most—a lot of the time‚ I had to do things for myself. My mother and father divorced when I was three‚ and my life has not been the same since. My mind filled with confusion and infinite questions‚ since I was too young to understand the situation at the time. Coming from a broken home‚ I wondered why I was not able to enjoy certain luxuries that other families could‚ although I was privileged enough to go to a private school through scholarships. My father did not pay
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for happiness since he was five years old. Unfortunately‚ he went to unhappy places to find happiness and that didn’t work and Weiner spent most of his life in unhappiness. Weiner loves to travel as finding way to happiness so he decided to travel the world in search of happy places and then maybe he will find the key to happiness. Because he spent most of his life to study and research about happy so he is the right guys to talk about happiness. With his adventure story of finding happiness in different
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Foundation 1089-2680/05/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.9.2.111 Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California‚ Riverside Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri—Columbia David Schkade University of California‚ San Diego The pursuit of happiness is an important goal for many people. However‚ surprisingly little scientific research has focused on the question of how happiness can be increased and then sustained‚ probably because of pessimism
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Humans are in search of two things: love and happiness. Whether it is from kids or significant others‚ people strive to reach feelings of connection in fear of being alone. In Gilbert’s‚ “Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?” and Crittenden’s‚ “About Love‚” the authors question the roots of personal happiness. By comparing and contrasting Daniel Gilbert and Danielle Crittenden‚ it can be concluded that oneself does not solely determine happiness. The presence of children and significant others serve as
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an English moral philosopher and legal reformer‚ the highest principle of morality is to maximize happiness‚ the overall balance of pleasure over pain. This principle explains the Utilitarianism doctrine that is mostly the solution of everyone in every century. Utilitarianism can bring the most benefit for people. In contrast‚ throughout the three stories “Justice” by John Stuart Mill‚ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro‚ and “The One who Walks Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guinn‚ it is easy to
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Epicureanism is a philosophy developed the teachings and ideals of a man named Epicurus. Epicureanism is defined by Epicurus as the pleasure for the end of all morality and that real pleasure is attained through a life of prudence‚ honor‚ and justice. Epicurus introduced this philosophy around 322 B.C‚ and two schools established in Athens. Epicurus taught the ethics of his philosophy in his school‚ that a person should live by "the art of making life happy"‚ and that "prudence is the noblest part
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experience life‚ is one of the worst moments a human could possibly face. Dylan Thomas had expressed his mood and feeling of sadness‚ as Thomas doesn’t want his father to sleep on his deathbed. Thomas had included many messages that touched the heart. “Do not go gentle into that good night‚” (line 1)‚ Thomas opens with suggesting the intensity and power of his family bonds. The speaker believes that his bonds with his father cannot be easily broken down; however‚ when the father got ill and weak‚ he was
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