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28 Cards in this Set
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emotions
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brief acute changes in conscious experience and physiology that occur in response to a personally meaningfulsituation
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moods
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affective states that operate in the background of consciousness and tend to last longer than most emotions.
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affective traits
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stable predispositions toward certain type of emotional responses such as anger
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basic emotions (ekman)
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set of emotions that are common to all humans; includes anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
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self- conscious emotions
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types of emotions that require a sense of self and the ability to reflect on actions; they occur asa function of meeting expectations and abiding by society's rules (shame, guilt, humiliation, embarassment and pride)
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organized responses
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illustrates the adaptive value of negative emotions, which enable people to respond efficiently to a significant challenge or obstacle
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broaden- and build model
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fredricksons model for positive emotions, which posits that they are widen our cognitive perspective and help us acquire useful life skills
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antecedent event
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a situation that may lead to an emotional response
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appraisal
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the evaluation of a situation with respect to how relevant it is to nes own welfare; it drives the process by which emotions are elicited (olympic athlete medal placing)
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emotion regulation
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the cognitive and behavioral efforts people make to modify their emotions
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Reappraisal
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AN EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGY IN WHICH ONE REEVALUATES AN ANTECEDENT EVENT SO THAT A DIFFERENT EOTION RESULTS
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expressive suppression
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a response focused strategy for regulating emotion that involves the deliberate attempt to inhibit the outward manifestation of an emotion
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emotional response
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the physiological, behavioral/ expressive, adn subjective changes that occur when emotions are generated
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physiological changes
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increase in heart rate, and rate of respiration. autonomic nervous system
-for fear, sympathetic branch of ans is activated -positive emotions- parasympathetic ANS (relaxed state) |
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behavioral expressive changes
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emotions create expressive changes in the face and voice.
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facial coding system
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a widely used method for measuring all observable muscular movements that are possible in the human face
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duchenne smile (genuine smile)
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a smile that expresses true enjoyment, involving both the muscles that pull up the lip corners diagonally and those that contract teh band of muscles encircling the eye
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Subjective changes in emotion
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the changes in the quality of our conscious experience that occur during emotional responses.
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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
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culturally relativism
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the idea that behavior varies across cultures and can be understood only within the context of the culture in which they occur
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Neurocultural theory of emotion
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ekmans explanation that some aspects of emotions such as facial expressions and physiological changes associated with emotion, are universal and others, such as emotional regulation are culturally derived
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display rules
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learned norms or rules, often taught very early, about when it is appropriate to express certain emotions and to whom one should show them.
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affective neuroscience
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the field devoted to stuyding the brains role in emotion (key areas: amygdala and prefrontal cortex)
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amygdala
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-connects to hypothalamus (controld ans) hippocampus (memory), thalamus (receives info from sense organs), cerebral cortex.
- Plays essential role in appraisal of the emotional significance of stimuli with a specialized function for noticing fear- relevant information - determines whether a situationneed an emotional response at all |
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pre-frontal cortex
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-appraisal of emotions
- depressed people have less activity in prefrontal cortex - determines options for response or reappraisal |
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anterior cingulate cortex
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active when people either recall or imagine emotional experiences
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positive emotions (brain)
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left prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus
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insula
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involved in interoception, or perception of sensations arising wthin the body
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