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| Define Affect? What does it include? |
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| a term for a variety of emotional phenomena. Emotions Moods and affective traits |
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| breif, acute changes in conscious experience and physiology that occur in response to a personally meaningful situation |
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| What kind of situations have emotions for someone? |
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| it has to be personally meaningful |
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| Affective states that operate in the background of consciousness and tend to last longer than emotions. Underlying tone. |
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| What are affective traits? |
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| stable predispositions toward certain types of emotional responses. Someone's overall demeanor, how the character reacts/ |
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| What is the way someone always reacts to a change in plans called? |
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| set of emotions that are common to all humans. There are 6 innate characteristics that we can physically recognize |
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| What are the 6 basic emotions? |
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anger
fear
disgust
surprised
happiness
sadness |
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| Within basic emotions, what are categories or spectrum? Example: |
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| some argue that all states differ primarily in pleasantness and arousal which will determine your emotion. Anxiety is in the category of fear |
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| What are self conscious emotions? |
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| types of emotion that require a sense of self and the ability to reflect on actions |
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| example of self conscious emotions? |
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| embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, pride, shame. Emotions that help people socially interact |
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adaptations
they help us deal w/critical situations.
fight or flight- fear emotions identify this and help us survive those genes are passed on. |
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| What are broaden and build model? |
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| model for positive emotions that posits that they widen our cognitive perspective and help us acquire useful life skills. |
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| examples of broaden and build model? |
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| happier people do better on creativity tests. "what can you do with a brick" happier ppl come up with more creative ideas |
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| Emotions can be best thought of as a -- bc -- |
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| o Emotion has many different components and can be best thought of as a process. Not just a state of mind. |
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Antecedent event
appraisal
emotional response |
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| What is the antecedent event, and example? |
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a situation that many lead to an emotional response. (1st thing)
Someone cuts you off while driving. |
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the evaluation of a situation with respect to how relevant it is to one’s welfare.
• Immediate response, may not be deliberate/conscious
o Ex: bronze metal winner will be happier than the silver metal. |
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| What are emotional response? |
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| Emotional Response- the physiological, behavioral, and subjective changes that occur when an emotion is generated. Appraisal initiated this. |
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| People can intentionally or unintentionally change their emotions, 3 things: |
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emotional regulation
reappraisal
expressive suppression |
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| What is emotional regulation? |
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| the cognitive and behavioral efforts people make to modify their emotions. |
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| the strategy in which one reevaluates an event so that a different emotion Looking back you can laugh at something. |
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| What is expressive suppression? |
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the response that involves deliberately attempting to inhibit the outward manifestation of an emotion.
Trying not to express emotions. |
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| What are the 3 types of emotional response? |
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physiological changes
behavioral changes
subjective experience emotion |
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| What are physiological changes? |
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Autonomic nervous system (ANS)- governs processes over which we have little conscious control.
Fear, start sweating, breathing harder. |
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Sympathetic branch are activated by:
Parasympathetic branch: |
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Symp: negative emotions. Speeds up HR, Flight or fight
Para: positive emotions are active. Brings us back down and maintains a level of normalcy |
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| What are behavioral changes? |
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| Changes in both facial expressions and voice. |
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| What is the facial actions coding system (FACS) |
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| a widely used method for measuring all observable muscular movements to determine what person is experiencing. |
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What is a duchenne smile?
Why are smiles important to be distinguished? |
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a smile that expresses true enjoyment
involves lips and eyes (more squinty)
distinguishable a smile for social reason |
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| How many of the 6 basic emotions are universal? |
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| 5/6 seem to be understoof across almost all cultures (Not fear) |
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| What is subjective experience of emotion? |
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the changes in the quality of our conscious experience that occur during emotional response.
• When we recognize our physiological and behavioral changes our body is going on, and how we interpret them
includes the James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| What is James-Lange theory of emotion? |
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the idea that it is the perception of the physiological changes that accompany emotions that produces the subjective emotional experience.
• Lump in the throuat when sad. Disgust, stomach. |
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| o Emotions involve several areas of the brain that are highly connected to areas involved in cognition. |
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| responsible for letting us know whether or not we should get emotional or not. Should there be an emotional response. |
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| regulates emotions, once we’ve determined there will be a response. |
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| hormone in our body (motering hormone) used to increase trust within groups, makes you want to be apart of something. |
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| Neurocultural theory of emotion- |
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explanation that some aspects of emotion are universal, while others are culturally derived.
• Universal- facial expressions and physiological changes
• Culturally-derived- emotion regulations
• Display Rules- learned norms about when it is appropriate to express certain emotions and to whom they many be shown. |
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| In the neurocultural theory of emotion what are the universal and culturally derived aspects and what are the display rules? |
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• Universal- facial expressions and physiological changes
• Culturally-derived- emotion regulations
• Display Rules- learned norms about when it is appropriate to express certain emotions and to whom they many be shown. |
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