6. Checkpoint: Positive Psychology Themes

6. CheckPoint: Positive Psychology Themes

Positive psychology focuses on people’s abilities to be positive human beings—to make changes in their lives that benefit themselves, their families, and the world around them.

Due Date: Day 5 [post to the Assignment Section]

Post a 200- to 300-word description of the central themes and strategies of positive psychology as you understand them from your reading. Please remember to cite your text using APA format.

The central themes and stratagies of Positive Psychology as I understand it from our reading material, focuses on the whys of Human Behavior, Human Freedom, Human Limits, along with the initiative and Human values. The central themes and strategies of the whys of human behavior, is that Positive Psychology aims to understand and build the human strengths in an effort to help people thrive. People tend to be curious about the underlying causes of both good and bad behaviors, and to wonder about how much control we really have over our behavior. Positive Psychologists assume that people can choose, change and control their life's direction, which validates efforts to build human strengths and foster civic virtues, according to our week's readings.

The central themes and strategies of human freedom, is that we value our freedom and resist others’ efforts to restrict it. Choice, change, and control are three factors, which tremendously affects our sense of personal freedom. Decision-making is central to human experience. Autonomy seems to be a fundamental human need that is important to well-being and personal achievement. The belief that human nature can be, changed affects motivation and felt responsibility. Entity theorists, who see traits as fixed, exert less effort than incremental theorists, who believe traits can be, modified. People vary in their sense of personal control

People with an internal locus of control believe they shape their own destiny. People with an external...