Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each idea as a positive-psychology concept or a methodological reform.
Groups: Positive psychology concept · Methodological reform
- The WEIRD-samples critique of unrepresentative participants
- Resilience: adapting well after adversity
- Subjective well-being as a research focus
- Flow: deep, effortless absorption in a challenging task
- Preregistering hypotheses before collecting data
Hints
- One group is about human strengths and flourishing; the other is about how research is DONE.
- Flow, resilience, and well-being are positive psychology; preregistration and the WEIRD critique are methodological.
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Positive psychology concept: Flow: deep, effortless absorption in a challenging task, Resilience: adapting well after adversity, Subjective well-being as a research focus
Methodological reform: Preregistering hypotheses before collecting data, The WEIRD-samples critique of unrepresentative participants
Why
Flow, resilience, and well-being are positive-psychology concepts (strengths and flourishing); preregistration and the WEIRD critique are methodological reforms (how research is conducted and sampled). The two developments address different problems.
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.
- Positive psychology is often dismissed as optimism and self-help. What distinguishes it from that?