Three Kinds of Happiness and the Engaged Life
3 Factor Flourishing Inventory
- We get a profile which maps onto chapter 1
- Good students will put in 2 hours of studying
- Mark is determined by quality time on task
- Time on task requires motivation
- The strength of your desire to learn will boost or lower average mark
Three Kinds of Happiness
- The Pleasant Life
- The Engaged Life
- The Meaningful Life
- We will leave class knowing which one we are flourishing in the most
- Only focus on the first 3
The Pleasant Life
- Joy
- Positive mood seen by others
- Gratitude
- This is a subjective
Understanding Psychopathy: Traits, Theories, and Assessments
Psychopathy
Concept
Psychopathy is a concept reserved for individuals who are not socialized and exhibit behaviors that lead to ongoing conflicts with society. These individuals are incapable of loyalty, are extremely selfish and irresponsible, and have a low frustration tolerance.
Two facts are most characteristic of the psychopathic personality: the inability to experience emotional responses and an irresistible tendency to act impulsively. From these two facts, other traits are derived, such as
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CONCEPTS OF KNOWLEDGE
What is Knowledge?
A set of information stored by learning experience or through introspection.
Episteme and Doxa
Episteme is knowledge that is necessarily true.
Doxa is phenomenal knowledge and therefore misleading.
Knowledge comes from sensory perception, then comes to understanding, and finally concludes in reason. It is said that knowledge is a relation between a subject and an object.
Subject is the person or group of persons compiling the knowledge. Knowledge is always knowledge
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Actants and Essence
Actants are anything that modifies other actors through a series of actions. For example, vinegar poured into baking soda causes the baking soda to react in a way it wouldn’t otherwise (vinegar is the actant).
Essence is the property or set of properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity and without which it loses its identity.
Scripts and Mediation
An actant has a program or script. A car is programmed to run. A script is a
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Labeling Theory: New approach
No previous criminological theories: a study of the causes of criminal behavior.
No labeling theory:
study the process by which society (or their institutions: parliament, judges, police, media) condemns some behaviors and create stereotypes of offenders.
Areas of Interest
1. The process of defining the crime and the offender.
2. The assumption of the identity of offenders.
3. Crime Statistics
1. The process of defining the crime and the offender
n The process
Genetics, Maturation, and Growth in Human Development
To switch to MADURACÓN GENETICS (growth, maturation, learning, adaptation or genetic desarrollo.La are the characteristics that differentiate one person from other individuals. It is not modifiable and interacts with the environment m., where the individual develops . M. The genetics and environment influence the growth of the individual, act differently, genetics will make it more high-low, more fat-skinny and act m. Environment on development in the medium, the relationship with others, with
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