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54 Cards in this Set
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a conscious evaluative reaction to some event
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EMOTION
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a feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event
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MOOD
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the automatic response that something is good or bad
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AFFECT
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a powerful and clearly unified feeling state. such as anger or joy
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CONSCIOUS EMOTION
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a quick response of liking or disliking toward something
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AUTOMATIC AFFECT
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a physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions
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AROUSAL
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the proposition that the bodily processes of emotion come first and the mind's perception of these bodily reactions then creates the subjective fe:ling of emotion
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JAMES-LANGE THEORY OF EMOTION
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the idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions
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FACIAL FEEDBACK HYPOTHESIS
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the proposition that emotional stimuli activate the thalamus, which then activates both the cortex, producing an experienced emotion, and the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system. producing physiological arousal
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CANNON-BARD THEORY OF EMOTION
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the idea that emotion has two components: a bodily state of arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion
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SCHACHTER-SINGER THEORY OF EMOTION
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the idea that arousal from one event can transfer to a later event
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EXCITATION TRANSFER
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the frequency of positive emotions minus the frequency of negative emotions
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AFFECT BALANCE
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an evaluation of how one's life is generally, and how it compares to some standard
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LIFE SATISFACTION
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a theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them
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HEDONIC TREADMILL
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an emotional response to a real or imagined threat or provocation
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ANGER
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the proposition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release of those emotions and is therefore good for the psyche
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CATHARSIS THEORY
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an unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrong Iy
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GUILT
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a moral emotion that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person
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SHAME
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an unpleasant emotion associated with surviving a tragic event involving much loss of life
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SURVIVOR GUILT
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the idea that people judge something as good or bad by asking themselves "How do I feel about it?"
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AFFECT-AS-INFORMATION HYPOTHESIS
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the ability to predict one's emotional reactions to future events
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AFFECTIVE FORECASTING
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the idea that people rely on emotional processes to evaluate risk, with the result that their judgments may be biased by emotional factors
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RISK-AS-FEELINGS HYPOTHESIS
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the proposition that positive emotions expand an individual's attention and mind-set
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BROADEN-AND-BUILD THEORY
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the proposition that some arousal is better than none, but too much can hurt performance
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YERKES-DODSON LAW
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the ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ)
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the part of the brain that is like a relay station for nerve impulses. Information
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thalamus
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From the thalamus, information's relayed both to the _____, which produces emotion and to the ____ and _____, which produces the increase in physiological arousal.
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1.) Cerebral Cortex
2.) hypothalamus 3.) autonomic nervous system |
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Emotion has two components:
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physiological arousal and cognitive label
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Physiological measures of sexual arousal in the genitals are correlate about ___ in men and ___ in women.
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.60 and .25
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Fear can be converted into ___
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love
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There are two basic arousal states that feel quite different:
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pleasant and unpleasant
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The Alexander Solzhenitsyn story of the Siberian prison camp shows what?
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The power of comparison and expectation.
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The surprising thing about the objective predictors of happiness is that the effects are ___
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Weak
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Money, good job, and happy marriages are called what in relation to happiness?
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Objective Root of Happiness or Objective predictor
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The existence of happiness subsequent to outlook and personality are?
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Subjective roots of happiness
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_______ is an internal emotion, whereas _____ is an external behavior.
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Anger; aggression
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____ makes people downplay risks and overlook dangers.
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Anger
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Angry people actually become more _____; in this respect andy and happy people resemble each other.
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optimistic
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____ makes one want to fight right now. ____, in contrast, leads to rejection and social exclusion.
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Anger; contempt
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Anger is more ____ social.
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positively
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Three possible ways of dealing with anger:
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1.) Never show anger
2.) Vent anger 3.) Get rid of anger |
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The difference between guilt and shame is:
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guilt focuses narrowly on the action while shame spreads to the whole person
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To whom is guilt mainly felt toward?
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family, good friends, and loved ones
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The path to feeling good and avoiding emotional distress is to
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form and maintain good social relationships
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According to Frijda, emotion does not exist without what?
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A readiness for action
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One seeming objection to the view that emotions do not cause behavior is
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communication
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People are fairly accurate at predicting emotions they would feel, but they substantially ____ how long they would feel that way. The also ___ the intensity of their emotional reactions.
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overestimate; overestimate
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What has been called "the shadow of intelligence?"
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anxiety
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Positive emotions appear to solve problems of
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personal growth and development
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Positive emotions prepare a person for
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later hard times
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Positive emotions broaden and expand an individual's
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attention and mindset
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Paul Ekman and his colleagues have identified six basic emotions that can be reliably distinguished from facial expressions
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anger, surprise, disgust, happiness (joy), fear, and sadness
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People from collectivist cultures experienced emotions that were based on assessments of ___, based more on ____
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social worth; outer world
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The four branches of emotional intelligence:
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1.) Perceiving emotions
2.) Facilitating thought 3.) Understanding emotions 4.) Managing emotions |