This document summarizes key points from a presentation about communication design and theories of learning. It discusses how communication designers produce information to explain technologies and work in ill-structured problem domains. It also outlines general problem-solving tasks and what is known about learning, including comprehension, representation, retrieval, and construction of new understandings.
This document discusses strategies for positive parenting based on a child's strengths. It recommends activities like building with cardboard, recalling good memories from the day, and spending quality time together. It also suggests focusing on a child's interests and abilities rather than weaknesses. The document advises calibrating praise to a child's accomplishments and using consequences rarely as a last resort.
Goal setting is effective because it directs attention towards focusing on relative goals, mobilizes effort needed to accomplish new learning strategies, and develops new ways of accomplishing tasks that lead to better goal achievement through persistence and focused effort.
This diagram outlines a well-being theory called PERMA which identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. It shows how each pillar contributes to an individual's overall well-being and happiness.
The document discusses the concept of "flow state", which is described as a state of total absorption, optimal functioning, and intrinsic motivation that occurs when an individual's skills are fully matched to the challenge at hand. Key requirements for achieving a flow state include maintaining focused attention, having a positive mental attitude, and ensuring a balance between the perceived skills of the performer and the perceived challenge of the task. Examples are given of activities like playing jazz or martial arts that can facilitate entering a flow state where one's whole being is involved and the activity is intrinsically rewarding.
Long term stress can damage the immune system and disrupt the body's normal chemical balance by constantly elevating levels of cortisol and other stress hormones which depletes energy, makes it difficult to sleep, and can lead to stress related disorders that affect the majority of Americans. Chronic stress causes the body to recalibrate to a new higher level of stress as a "new homeostasis" and can desensitize receptors related to pleasure and happiness over time with constant overexposure and overstimulation of the fear and stress response.
Stress can affect both our psychological state and physiological response. When faced with stressors, our bodies activate what is known as the stress response. This stress response triggers changes in our bodies like increased heart rate and cortisol levels that help us deal with threats.
This document outlines different types of hypnosis, including self-hypnosis which is self-induced relaxation through focusing attention without an external hypnotist, autohypnosis which is self-hypnosis induced through posthypnotic suggestion, and heterohypnosis where hypnosis is induced by another person such as a trained therapist through establishing rapport and avoiding negative suggestions.
This document summarizes key points from a presentation about communication design and theories of learning. It discusses how communication designers produce information to explain technologies and work in ill-structured problem domains. It also outlines general problem-solving tasks and what is known about learning, including comprehension, representation, retrieval, and construction of new understandings.
This document discusses strategies for positive parenting based on a child's strengths. It recommends activities like building with cardboard, recalling good memories from the day, and spending quality time together. It also suggests focusing on a child's interests and abilities rather than weaknesses. The document advises calibrating praise to a child's accomplishments and using consequences rarely as a last resort.
Goal setting is effective because it directs attention towards focusing on relative goals, mobilizes effort needed to accomplish new learning strategies, and develops new ways of accomplishing tasks that lead to better goal achievement through persistence and focused effort.
This diagram outlines a well-being theory called PERMA which identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. It shows how each pillar contributes to an individual's overall well-being and happiness.
The document discusses the concept of "flow state", which is described as a state of total absorption, optimal functioning, and intrinsic motivation that occurs when an individual's skills are fully matched to the challenge at hand. Key requirements for achieving a flow state include maintaining focused attention, having a positive mental attitude, and ensuring a balance between the perceived skills of the performer and the perceived challenge of the task. Examples are given of activities like playing jazz or martial arts that can facilitate entering a flow state where one's whole being is involved and the activity is intrinsically rewarding.
Long term stress can damage the immune system and disrupt the body's normal chemical balance by constantly elevating levels of cortisol and other stress hormones which depletes energy, makes it difficult to sleep, and can lead to stress related disorders that affect the majority of Americans. Chronic stress causes the body to recalibrate to a new higher level of stress as a "new homeostasis" and can desensitize receptors related to pleasure and happiness over time with constant overexposure and overstimulation of the fear and stress response.
Stress can affect both our psychological state and physiological response. When faced with stressors, our bodies activate what is known as the stress response. This stress response triggers changes in our bodies like increased heart rate and cortisol levels that help us deal with threats.
This document outlines different types of hypnosis, including self-hypnosis which is self-induced relaxation through focusing attention without an external hypnotist, autohypnosis which is self-hypnosis induced through posthypnotic suggestion, and heterohypnosis where hypnosis is induced by another person such as a trained therapist through establishing rapport and avoiding negative suggestions.
The document discusses mindfulness and savoring experiences. It encourages taking time to mindfully experience things through our senses like eating chocolate slowly. It suggests writing in a journal about pleasurable experiences and sharing them with others to build memories and sharpen our perception by becoming fully immersed in sensations.
The document discusses the relationship between emotion and motivation from a two-system perspective. It describes emotions as arising from innate physiological systems that indicate adaptation and react involuntarily to stimuli, as well as being shaped by experience and social interpretation through cognitive systems. Basic emotions like sadness arise from common life circumstances but are uniquely expressed by individuals.
Highlight 3 key public speaking tips: tell stories, end with the key point, and connect key points. Stories are easier for audiences to remember and help illustrate points. Ending on the key point reinforces the main message. Connecting different points within the presentation helps the audience follow the overall narrative.
The document discusses psychosomatic illness, which refers to physical illnesses that are caused or exacerbated by mental or emotional factors. Psychosomatic illnesses form as a communication between the conscious and unconscious mind, often arising from unresolved psychological or existential issues that manifest physically. The document suggests examining psychosomatic illnesses to understand what underlying problems, needs, or secondary gains they may be representing or serving for the individual.
A psychologist explains what caused your problem, how you have the problem, and provides a solution to help you get well through dialogue and communication to change behaviors. A psychotherapist fixes problems through dialogue and communication to change behaviors while a psychiatrist treats mental disorders with drugs.
This document provides tips for improving productivity each week and day. It recommends mapping out goals at the start of each period to focus on accomplishing what you want. The tips suggest prioritizing the most challenging tasks and "eating the frog" by tackling them first for the greatest reward.
This document discusses various factors related to happiness, life satisfaction, and positive psychology. It mentions criteria for happiness such as money, convenience, and relationships. It also discusses returning to one's natural weight after dieting, how daily commutes can decrease happiness, and focusing on what people want to achieve versus what they have achieved. Several tips are provided for cultivating positivity, such as focusing on strengths, reframing problems, asking positive questions, and acknowledging achievements.
The document outlines various positive individual traits, emotions, and institutions that are the focus of positive psychology. These include virtues, love, courage, compassion, resilience, creativity, integrity, self-control, moderation, wisdom, contentment, happiness, satisfaction, present and future hope, positive emotions, fostering better communities, justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, nurturance, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance.
This document discusses positive psychology and its study of optimal human functioning. Positive psychology examines positive strengths like subjective experiences, personal growth, and positive emotions. The field focuses on building these positive traits in individuals and communities.
Coaches should remain in the spectator area during games, not advise players how to play, cheer for their child's team and give them support. Coaches should also not direct bad comments toward either team or players, drink alcohol or come to games drunk, and should be in control of their emotions at all times. Officials should be thanked for their work conducting the event.
Feelings arise as reactions to important life events and serve to generate feelings, arouse the body to action, and generate motivational states. Emotions are multidimensional, subjective, biological responses that prepare the body for adaptation through energy mobilization. They direct attention, coping behavior, and communication through expression and body language.
The document discusses concepts related to mental practice and planning for self-improvement, including imagining new skills and ways of being, mentally rehearsing and reviewing experiences, and using techniques like memorization, study, and daily practice to strengthen neural networks and replace old patterns with new, imagined ideals.
This document discusses how to modify thoughts through conscious observation and becoming familiar with internal journeys of self-study, meditation, contemplation and reflection on a specific topic over an extended period of time in order to cultivate greater ideals of self and introspection.
This document discusses abandoning old ways of thinking and behaviors shaped by past environments in order to create new synaptic pathways and define a new mind and identity focused on becoming greater than one's environment and emotions rather than being predictable products of past instruction and triggers. It suggests examining and unlearning old knowledge and memories in order to replace them with new ones and eliminating typical responses to one's environment.
This document appears to be listing various concepts related to human experience and development. It includes concepts like wisdom, knowledge, understanding, experience, emotions, and life processes that are all part of how humans grow and interact with the world. The concepts are arranged without descriptions or connections between them, presenting a high-level view of some key human attributes.
This document discusses the relationship between the objective world we see and the spiritual world of concepts and ideas. It suggests that visualization, imagination, and constructive thought are important mental exercises that nourish growth and precede constructive action, while daydreaming and unfocused thinking are mentally dissipating. Visualization and imagination can be good servants if focused properly but poor masters if left unfocused.
This document discusses how to change oneself by thinking differently, acting beyond circumstances and attitudes, consciously controlling thoughts and reactions, breaking habits, and maintaining behaviors aligned with good feelings rather than returning to familiar but unhelpful thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs.
The document discusses how people's facial expressions can program you to feel negative emotions like sadness, boredom, and anger. It recommends looking down or reading a book instead of at people's faces on public transportation to avoid being programmed by their expressions and to calm your mind. Watching comedy is also suggested to help feel happier.
The document discusses how the mind can heal the body through problem recognition, bringing balance, and allowing the body to repair itself without intervention by following its genetic programming and healing requirements with complete focus and utter will.
This document outlines the effects of stress hormones on the body, mobilizing energy from storage to muscles, increasing heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate to prepare the body for exertion, while shutting down processes like digestion, reproduction, growth and immunity.
The document discusses mindfulness and savoring experiences. It encourages taking time to mindfully experience things through our senses like eating chocolate slowly. It suggests writing in a journal about pleasurable experiences and sharing them with others to build memories and sharpen our perception by becoming fully immersed in sensations.
The document discusses the relationship between emotion and motivation from a two-system perspective. It describes emotions as arising from innate physiological systems that indicate adaptation and react involuntarily to stimuli, as well as being shaped by experience and social interpretation through cognitive systems. Basic emotions like sadness arise from common life circumstances but are uniquely expressed by individuals.
Highlight 3 key public speaking tips: tell stories, end with the key point, and connect key points. Stories are easier for audiences to remember and help illustrate points. Ending on the key point reinforces the main message. Connecting different points within the presentation helps the audience follow the overall narrative.
The document discusses psychosomatic illness, which refers to physical illnesses that are caused or exacerbated by mental or emotional factors. Psychosomatic illnesses form as a communication between the conscious and unconscious mind, often arising from unresolved psychological or existential issues that manifest physically. The document suggests examining psychosomatic illnesses to understand what underlying problems, needs, or secondary gains they may be representing or serving for the individual.
A psychologist explains what caused your problem, how you have the problem, and provides a solution to help you get well through dialogue and communication to change behaviors. A psychotherapist fixes problems through dialogue and communication to change behaviors while a psychiatrist treats mental disorders with drugs.
This document provides tips for improving productivity each week and day. It recommends mapping out goals at the start of each period to focus on accomplishing what you want. The tips suggest prioritizing the most challenging tasks and "eating the frog" by tackling them first for the greatest reward.
This document discusses various factors related to happiness, life satisfaction, and positive psychology. It mentions criteria for happiness such as money, convenience, and relationships. It also discusses returning to one's natural weight after dieting, how daily commutes can decrease happiness, and focusing on what people want to achieve versus what they have achieved. Several tips are provided for cultivating positivity, such as focusing on strengths, reframing problems, asking positive questions, and acknowledging achievements.
The document outlines various positive individual traits, emotions, and institutions that are the focus of positive psychology. These include virtues, love, courage, compassion, resilience, creativity, integrity, self-control, moderation, wisdom, contentment, happiness, satisfaction, present and future hope, positive emotions, fostering better communities, justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, nurturance, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance.
This document discusses positive psychology and its study of optimal human functioning. Positive psychology examines positive strengths like subjective experiences, personal growth, and positive emotions. The field focuses on building these positive traits in individuals and communities.
Coaches should remain in the spectator area during games, not advise players how to play, cheer for their child's team and give them support. Coaches should also not direct bad comments toward either team or players, drink alcohol or come to games drunk, and should be in control of their emotions at all times. Officials should be thanked for their work conducting the event.
Feelings arise as reactions to important life events and serve to generate feelings, arouse the body to action, and generate motivational states. Emotions are multidimensional, subjective, biological responses that prepare the body for adaptation through energy mobilization. They direct attention, coping behavior, and communication through expression and body language.
The document discusses concepts related to mental practice and planning for self-improvement, including imagining new skills and ways of being, mentally rehearsing and reviewing experiences, and using techniques like memorization, study, and daily practice to strengthen neural networks and replace old patterns with new, imagined ideals.
This document discusses how to modify thoughts through conscious observation and becoming familiar with internal journeys of self-study, meditation, contemplation and reflection on a specific topic over an extended period of time in order to cultivate greater ideals of self and introspection.
This document discusses abandoning old ways of thinking and behaviors shaped by past environments in order to create new synaptic pathways and define a new mind and identity focused on becoming greater than one's environment and emotions rather than being predictable products of past instruction and triggers. It suggests examining and unlearning old knowledge and memories in order to replace them with new ones and eliminating typical responses to one's environment.
This document appears to be listing various concepts related to human experience and development. It includes concepts like wisdom, knowledge, understanding, experience, emotions, and life processes that are all part of how humans grow and interact with the world. The concepts are arranged without descriptions or connections between them, presenting a high-level view of some key human attributes.
This document discusses the relationship between the objective world we see and the spiritual world of concepts and ideas. It suggests that visualization, imagination, and constructive thought are important mental exercises that nourish growth and precede constructive action, while daydreaming and unfocused thinking are mentally dissipating. Visualization and imagination can be good servants if focused properly but poor masters if left unfocused.
This document discusses how to change oneself by thinking differently, acting beyond circumstances and attitudes, consciously controlling thoughts and reactions, breaking habits, and maintaining behaviors aligned with good feelings rather than returning to familiar but unhelpful thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs.
The document discusses how people's facial expressions can program you to feel negative emotions like sadness, boredom, and anger. It recommends looking down or reading a book instead of at people's faces on public transportation to avoid being programmed by their expressions and to calm your mind. Watching comedy is also suggested to help feel happier.
The document discusses how the mind can heal the body through problem recognition, bringing balance, and allowing the body to repair itself without intervention by following its genetic programming and healing requirements with complete focus and utter will.
This document outlines the effects of stress hormones on the body, mobilizing energy from storage to muscles, increasing heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate to prepare the body for exertion, while shutting down processes like digestion, reproduction, growth and immunity.