TED talk The surprising science

Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness
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Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Here are two different futures I invite you to contemplate
We synthesize happiness, but we think happiness is a thing to be found. 
He resigned in disgrace. 
It drives us to violate the rules. 
Over nadenken 
samenstellen
aftreden
overtreden

Slide 2 - Sleepvraag

Because the reversible condition is not conducive to the synthesis of happiness.  
Let's make sure they really are amnesiac
It doesn't matter whether they were in the reversible or irreversible situation. 
Let's see how your experience simulators are working. 
Impact bias is the tendency for a simulator to work badly. 
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omkeerbaar
lijdend aan geheugenverlies
vooringenomen
heid
nabootser

Slide 3 - Sleepvraag

 that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules. 
which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice
either by shame of the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice. 
This is a trick none of our ancestors could do. 
paraplegics are equally happy with their lives. 
enthousiasme
omzichtigheid
berouw
voorouders
iemand met dwarslaesie

Slide 4 - Sleepvraag

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Slide 5 - Video

02:10
Which of the following statements is not correct according to Daniel Gilbert?
A
The brain has tripled in size.
B
During the course of evolutin the frontal lobe was formed.
C
The structures of the brain have so far been unchanged.
D
The pre-frontal cortex is like an experience simulator.

Slide 6 - Quizvraag

03:55
The impact bias is the tendency for people
A
to judge baded on their respective moods.
B
to judge on what they predict rather than on experience.
C
to overestimate the lenght and intensity of future states.
D
to underestimate the after-effects of traumatic events.

Slide 7 - Quizvraag

04:11
How much time does it take to get over major life traumas and return to(a former state of) happiness according to a recent study?
A
3 months
B
half a year
C
a year
D
people never quite recov

Slide 8 - Quizvraag

08:09
Jim Wright
Moreese Bickham
Harry S. Langerman
Mike Best
was a very respectable American politician who lost everything .
missed out on becoming the richest man in America .
spend a very long time in prison for a crime he did not commit. 
did not become part of one of the most famous popgroups ever. 

Slide 9 - Sleepvraag

09:24
synthetic happiness
natural happiness
what we get when we get what we wanted. 
what we make when we don't get what we wanted

Slide 10 - Sleepvraag

13:48
Dan Gilbert tells about the experiment with the Monet prints to show that
A
amnesiac patients are very unreliable as research controls.
B
amnesiac patients find it difficult to find happiness in art.
C
people actually change their affective reactions to achieve happiness.
D
people easily deceive themselves in order to feel happy .

Slide 11 - Quizvraag

15:01
what is the enemy of synthetic happiness?
A
freedom to change and make up your mind.
B
irreversible conditions.
C
limited choice.
D
self-satisfaction.

Slide 12 - Quizvraag

18:56
The Harvard experiment makes clear that students (and by inference people in general)
A
are more likely to change their minds if offered the opportunity to deliberate.
B
are unaware that the freedom to choose can work to their disadvantage.
C
experience greater satisfaction at a task when asked to use their creativity.
D
usually make correct predictions about their future behaviour.

Slide 13 - Quizvraag

08:09
Jim Wright, Moreese Bickham, Harry Langerman and Pete Best are used as examples of people who
A
do not seem to care about wordly goods .
B
do not seem to have a specific purpose in life.
C
have had extremely bad luck in life.
D
have synthesized happiness .

Slide 14 - Quizvraag

Slide 15 - Link