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Chapter 7.3: Henry Murray & the TAT
Psychogenic Needs Henry Murray’s history is anything but a prerequisite for a career in psychology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history in 1915, a medical degree from Columbia in 1919 and then completed a doctorate in biochemistry from Cambridge nine years later. His start in psychology occurred after reading Jung and eventually arranging a…
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Post-Traumatic Growth: An Introduction
We know that psychological trauma exists and that it can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities. Trauma has impacted us since humans existed, and according to the National Center for PTSD at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, it has impacted us in a similar fashion across time. When first introduced in the…
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Reprinted from AllPsych Blog. You Can Bank On it Psychological capital in many ways is like a savings account for our well-being. Just as it is good to save money for a rainy day, it is good to build psychological capital. It is beneficial for good days and allows us greater comfort and safety in…
Read MoreTHRIVE 101 Brief History of Positive Psychology – Part 1
Reprinted from Blog Posting It Didn’t Start Off Very Positive I could not think of a better or more ironic way to start a paper on the history of positive psychology than with a quote on the inevitability of pain and suffering. So here it is: “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between…
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Grit – Passion and Perseverance
What makes someone successful? Is it intellect? Education? Physical health? Talent? Maybe luck? According to Dr. Angela Duckworth from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, it is none of those things. In her 2016 bestselling book – Grit – she interviewed successful people in a wide variety of professions – business, sports,…
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Building Psychological Capital (Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism)
You Can Bank On it Psychological capital in many ways is like a savings account for our well-being. Just as it is good to save money for a rainy day, it is good to build psychological capital. It is beneficial for good days and allows us greater comfort and safety in taking risks, being vulnerable,…
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Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 1)
It Didn’t Start Off Very Positive I could not think of a better or more ironic way to start a paper on the history of positive psychology than with a quote on the inevitability of pain and suffering. So here it is: “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” This…
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Psychology Dictionary — T A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z T-Score A standard score that sets the mean to fifty and standard deviation to ten. Used on a number of tests including the MMPI. t-Test…
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Psychology Dictionary — S A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Sample Portion of the entire population used to estimate what is likely happening within a population. Sample Mean Abbreviated with a lowercase x with a…
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Psychology Dictionary — H A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Habituation The decrease in response to a stimulus due to repetition (e.g., not hearing the ticking of a clock after getting used to it) Hallucination…
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