Practice question · Multiple choice
Positive psychology is often dismissed as optimism and self-help. What distinguishes it from that?
Hints
- Ask what Seligman was proposing to redirect, the topic, or the method?
- Flow and resilience are operationalised and measured.
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D. That it applies the same empirical methods to strengths
Why
The shift was in subject matter, not in rigour. Studying what goes right with the methods used for what goes wrong is the claim, and it stands or falls on the data.
Practise Contemporary Trends
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More questions on Contemporary Trends
- Select every statement that is TRUE about contemporary psychology.
- Large replication projects found a substantial share of published psychology findings did not reproduce. Why…
- Match each concrete description to the contemporary concept it names.
- Positive psychology studies flow, resilience and well-being rather than disorder. Critics call it a…
- Preregistration asks researchers to commit to their hypotheses and analysis plan before collecting data.…
- Order the events by which the replication crisis reshaped research practice.
- Sort each idea as a positive-psychology concept or a methodological reform.