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Positive Psychology
1.I can use positive psychology in my daily life to find meaning in what I do and have a positive outlook.

2. Positive Psychology can increase people's happiness in their lives by helping them find meaning and look at things in a more positive light.

Optimism and Pessimism
1. I would say that I live a mostly optimistic life. I say this because I like to look at the positive side of things even if the outcome is negative.
2. I think that your childhood has some effect on optimism or pessimism, but it is far from determining it entirely.
3. I would create a balance by looking at the good and bad of every situation and think about how it affects others.

Self-Consciousness
I think the article was very accurate in it's description of self-consciousness, and I think it is true that everyone feels self luscious in some way.

Locus of Control
1. I think that my locus of control will be internal, because self-reflection is something I am good at.
2. Internal Focus
3.I mostly agree with this conclusion, I think that I can also be aware of external factors, but overall I agree that my Locus of control is inwards.

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Positive Psychology
1. Positive psychology's gratitude exercises can increase happiness over time, and somebody could easily think of three things they are grateful for that they before they go to sleep.
2. Positive psychology is beneficial to help people find meaning and move towards the self-actualization level on Maslow's hierarchy.

Optimism and Pessimism
1. I would say that I live an optimistic life because I believe that if you have prepared fr something and done all that you can, then there is no point in worrying about things you can't control. With things you can control, instead of worrying, you can work towards solving your problem. I know it isn't that simple but in general I think hoping is more worthwhile.
2. I definitely think that childhoods have an impact, but I don't have a lot to go off of, since I don't know the specifics of many people's childhoods. My childhood was very average and stable, and I would like to think that I am a fairly balanced person.
3. I think I create balance because my natural disposition is probably to worry so I make myself hopeful but I don't think I could ever make myself entirely careless.

Self-Consciousness
I think that this article was definitely a lot of thoughts at once. I think that all of the questions were fairly relatable. It made me feel no way in particular.

Locus of Control

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Positive Psychology
1. We can use positive psychology in our real lives by finding the purpose of what we do in our day to day lives. We can become happier by identifying our strengths and practicing 'gratitude exercises'.
2. Positive psychology is beneficial to our lives and personalities because it helps us understand how to reach our full potential in being happy.
Optimism and Pessimism
1. I would say that I live a rather pessimistic life. Although being an optimistic person would lead to a happier life. I do try my best to be as optimistic as I can, but I always have that one feeling that something is going to go wrong to not get my hopes high.
2. I do not agree that your childhood takes control of your future life. In my childhood I was always told that "everything is going to be okay in the end" which I guess gives a sense of hope to someone at that age. It makes the kid believe that even if everything is going wrong at the time, in the end it'll be fine.
3. I am going to create a balance between the two by factoring in the consequences of certain actions and be more realistic.
Self Consciousness
1. I believe that this article is accurate in regards to certain aspects of life. The article was very detailed especially on certain aspects of what we should think about when we question our purpose or who we are as individuals. I enjoyed reading the article because it made me realize that subconsciously I am thinking about these different questions brought up in the article. I often think a lot about "who do others think I am?" and "what do they expect me to become?" which mainly says that I think a lot about the 3rd person self conscious thought more than first person.
Locus of Control
1. I would consider my locus focus of control to be internal.
2. The test determined that I have a mixed attribution style when it comes to success. Sometimes I interpret my success as a result of my skills, intelligence, nice personality, etc. But other times I attribute it to external factors such as luck, ease of task, or other people's help. As a consequence, I don't always take the credit I deserve.
3. I would agree with this personality test because often times I do believe that I only perform well on tests because they were less difficult than the others. I would disagree that I determine my success as a result of my skills, because I don't really value the skills I have.

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Positive Psychology:
1. I can use positive psychology in my life by trying to find meaning in what I do and achieving happiness through that.
2. Positive psychology is beneficial to our lives because it helps us learn how to be happy.

Optimism and Pessimism:
1. I try to live an optimistic life but I think I've led a more pessimistic life. I mainly try to be realistic.
2. I don't think your childhood has complete control over whether you become optimistic or pessimistic. I had a fairly stable childhood, but I did move around a decent amount.
3. I attempt to be a realist and think logically about every situation.

Self-Consciousness
I definitely think the article was very accurate. I really liked the article and I think it presented some really good ideas. Though I try to focus on my own aspiration gap, I definitely feel the presence of others' expectations and judgments of me in my life.

Locus of Control
1. I would consider my locus of control to be external, but not extremely. My way of thinking definitely reflects an external locus of control but my actions do not.

2. external locus of control

3. I think I do have an external locus of control but I don't act on it. I'm more likely to be internally motivated, but I believe a lot of things do come to chance.

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Positive Psychology
1.I can use positive psychology to create and find meaning in life, making your out view on life a little brighter
2.Its beneficial because it can help us to learn how to be happy and make our lives and personalities a bit better
Optimism and Pessimism
1.I would say that I try to live an optimistic life. Its really gratifying to hold true of the value that there are always goods in any situation. Even if that isn't necessarily realistic.
2.I don't agree that your childhood has an effect on that. I had very different views on life when I didn't exactly know everything about the world. Every person, I feel hold different view then they had like a decade ago
3.I feel like I need to just stay quiet on certain situations. I'm the type of  person who always try to find the positive in every situation. While that is good, I should stop trying to be a people-pleaser and just admit when a situation is bad.

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Positive Psychology:
1. We can all use positive psychology in our daily lived by finding meaning in what we do and feeling gracious for for the good things in our life.
2. Positive psychology teaches our brain to see the good in our daily lives. Practicing positive psychology and gratitude has proven to improve happiness over time.

Optimism and Pessimism:
1. I would say I generally live a pessimist life. Although I always do my best to expect good things, I am usually more realistic. I expect the worst, but I hope for the best.
2. I don't think my childhood influenced my pessimism very much. My parents are very realistic rather than optimistic, but I've been taught that it is healthier to be optimistic.
3. To create a balance, I am going to be more of a realist and see both sides of all situations.

Self-Consciousness
1. There is a lot to look at relating to how we perceive ourselves and our consciousness. This does relate to my life because it is human nature to notice our own flaws and feel disappointed in ourselves. However, I find ways to look at the positives in my life and see the best in myself while trying to improve my imperfections.

Locus of Control:
1. I think I have an internal locus of control because I have control of my actions and the experiences I am an involved in.
2. Internal locus of control
3. I agree with this. I attribute my successes and failures alike to my own actions and the consequences or rewards.

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1.Positive Psychology
People can use positive psychology by focusing on the specific points and improving that aspect in their lives, that make people happy in their lives. Such as ones personal traits and strengths and who and what is their meaning in life.
2. Positive psychology is such an important and beneficial part of our lives because it helps guide us to the desired happiness that every human craves for and overall leads us to a great future.
Optimism and Pessimism
1. I think I am more pessimistic in my life than optimistic because I do tend to doubt myself more often than not and with certain situations I will most likely expect the worse, just so that if I don't get the result I want it won't be so disappointing.
2. I don't think your childhood determines how optimistic or pessimistic, I think when people hit the preteen stages is where we really start getting a broader view in the world around us. If I look way back into my childhood I think the one thing that would made me more of a pessimist is the disappointment that I constantly kept receiving from the other side of my family.
3. I will probably try to control my self-doubt and try to look at things in a more optimistic way, but with certain situations I will continue to be pessimistic to avoid being distraught in the future.
Self-Consciousness

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1. You can use positive psychology in your life by finding meaning in all that we do and living our life to the fullest.
2. Positive psychology is beneficial to our lives because it focuses on more everyday things, it doesn't just focus on disorders or rare illness. It encourages us to embrace the good parts of life and think critically on how we can improve it.
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1. While I want to say I'm somewhat of a realist, I'm definitely more of an optimist. Aside from the glaring problem here that my anxiety makes me assume the worst and actually spurs lots of negative and pessimistic thoughts, I'd have to say when I'm at my mentally healthiest and coping with my anxiety well I actually, at heart, am almost too optimistic, especially for others. I encourage others and believe that they're truly good. I'm kind of an Anne Frank with crippling anxiety. I find it harder to be optimistic for myself, but it's clear that I think optimistically for others.
2. I don't agree at all with the whole childhood fosters your optimist/pessimist tendency. My childhood was very rocky and I grew up pretty isolated, right? My childhood was basically a formula for a pessimist to pop out of. Really, though, I think it fostered the opposite in me as a means to survival. I kept myself hopeful and engaged in life by being positive. If I really was pessimistic, I'd (brutal honesty) be dead. So no, childhood really wasn't an indicator, or at least as the article claimed.
3. I personally create balance between optimism and pessimism in life by coping with my anxiety. All of my optimism tends to come from my inner self, all of my pessimism tends to come from my anxiety. If I calm my anxiety to a reasonable, non-disorder level, the optimism tends to fill the gap and I'm left pretty even.
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My thoughts on the matter is that it's a really true way to break down your identity, as self conscious as it makes you. When we just did our ideal and perceived self a few classes ago, I felt really self conscious admitting who I want to be and how I'm not. The added element of how others view you is kind of embarrassing? (Apologies, time for me to talk about my anxiety again... it's like it's a big part of my life or something). But my anxiety really effects how I think others see me. I just thought it was cool.

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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY:

1. You can use positive psychology by pursuing projects and goals bigger than yourself.
2. Positive psychology is important to our lives because understanding how to exercise it will help improve our overall happiness over time. Perhaps more importantly, it also helps to stabiise our mental states so that we know how to properly and healthily cope with less than desirable emotions when they occur.

OPTIMISM & PESSIMISM:

1. I would say that I lead a pessimistic lifestyle, though I am also rather idealistic. I tend to hope for the best outcomes and possibilities, but when worse things actually happen, my mood plummets and it negatively affects how I view everything else for awhile.
2. I agree that one's childhood fosters later optimism and pessimism, but it isn't the defining factor. I believe one's childhood interacts with their earliest temperament. One's earlier temperament may set the basis for their susceptibility to either optimism or pessimism, depending on how excitable/irritable they were. Later experiences then affect mindsets such as idealism and nihilism and those then affect how optimism and pessimism manifest. Pessimists can still be idealistic; while expecting the worst, they still hold out hope for the best, and optimists can still be optimists; while life may ultimately be pointless, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't want something out of it as long as you're stuck with it.
3. I think I already have a fair enough balance between the two. While I am more susceptible to pessimism and negativity, my idealism stops me from feeling completely hopeless. I might expect the absolute worst, but I still think that I can minimise the coming damage, or even turn it around into success.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

I think this is a relatively accurate article on how people construct themselves. I don't think it paid as much homage to the desire to mimic others that it could have, but it was briefly brought up. I at least pay more attention to traits in other people and in characters in fiction that I want and try to mimic them; I pay less conscious attention to the things others might want me to be. That's not to say other people's expectations for me have no effect at all, of course this isn't the case. But I care more about mirroring than adapting.

LOCUS OF CONTROL

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Positive Psychology:
1. I can use positive psychology each day of my life to become happier and grateful for everything that is in my life.
2. Positive psychology is beneficial to our lives and our personalities as we pursue a good life it can predict a greater life overall.

Optimism and Pessimism:
1. I think that I live a optimistic life. I always look for the  better things in life. I continue to look forward to new things in my life.
2. I don't agree that this is something that I determined during childhood. In my childhood I think the activities I pursued and the friends I had helped influence this decision, but I don't think that it was the determining factor.
3. In my life I know that I will have to create a balance. I will have to be optimistic to see the best things  in situations. While I may need to be pessimistic to believe that if something bad is going to happen you're either going to be right or something good will happen and you'll be surprised.

Self-Consciousness:
I agree with the fact that we feel self-conscious because we need to associate with people. I see this everyday whether I'm doing this or one of my peers' is. Through my perspective I think I tend to go with some outside influences but I try to keep my portrait true to myself. I think that everyone can connect to this as we all have our own perspectives of ourselves, we have aspirations, we ask others for their opinion about ourselves,

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Positive Psychology
1) Positive psychology can be used to feel happier and more fulfilled.

2) Contributes to "Good life" and such

Pessimism and optimism
1) Generally I would say that I lead a rather pessimistic life-style, as for most situations I look more for the worst outcomes and such.

2) I would believe as some might that it depends on the temperament of kid during this developmental phase. Depending on the consistency with bad or good results, and cognitive labeling the child might grow up to be either positive or negative biased.

3) I probably won't be able to... I'm super leaned toward the bad keeheehee, but if I would I would probably look for silver lining in everything I do, although arguably that isn't the best way

Self-conscious
I would guess that this is very accurate to most people, so therefore probably precise for me. I often daydream about what I could do to be a better person, which often is something I am unable to attain. I very often wonder what others think of me as well as what they think I am.

Locus of control
1) for me personally it might be external, I think that most of my life has been worked out by other people so far, I have zero experience and zero decision making skills.

2) I got a 47, external locus of control.

3) Most of the time when good things happen to me I absolutely attribute it to luck or some other factor. I personally believe lack skills in basically everything, that I have next to no influence in anything I do (otherwise saying that I don't deserve to).

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1. Positive Psychology is important is important because it give lives meaning and purpose. It allows people to live their life to the fullest instead of fleeting happiness.
2. Positive psychology can be used in lives by being optimistic about life and seeing the positive in everything.

Balancing Optimism and Pessimism
1. I would say that I have a optimistic life style. I always try to find the positive in every situation.
2. I do think my optimistic attitude was determined by my childhood. I was raised to see the positive in all situations, and even though something bad may occur there is always something good to come out of it or things would get better. My religious faith might bring out this current view on life. I was taught that God wouldn't give me anything I couldn't handle and he will always be there to help in my time of struggle.
3. I think I already have them balanced in my life, I know that there are bad situations and adversity will hit me multiple times in life, but I also know that positive things comes from that adversity, whether it be an oppurtunity to grow, or simply knowing that the bad situation is temporary and things will get better.