Psych 280-Chapter 7

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Emotions

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brief, specific, psychological and physiological responses that help humans meet social goals

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Appraisal processes

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The ways we evaluate events and objects in our environment according to their relation to our current goals

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Core-relational themes

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Distinct themes, such as danger or oddense or fairness, that define the essential meaning for each emotion

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Principle of serviceable habits

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Charles Darwin's thesis that emotional expressions rae remnants of full blown behaviors that helped our primate and mammalian predecessors meet important goals in the past

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Free-response critique

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A critique of Ekman and Friesen's emotion studies based on the fact that researchers provided the terms with which participants labeled facial expressions rather than allowing the participants to label the expressions in their own words

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Emotion accents

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Culturally specfic ways that individuals from different cultures express particular emotions, such as the tongue bite as an xpression of embarassment in India

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Focal emotions

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Emotions that are especially common within a particular culture

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Hypercognize

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To represent a particular emotion with numerous words and concepts

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Display rules

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culturally speicfic rules that govern how and when and to whom to express emotion

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Infrahumanization

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The tendency to attribute animal like qualities to outgroup members and be reluctant to attribute more complex emotions, such as pride or compassion, to outgroup members

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Broaden and build hypothesis

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The hypothesis that positive emotions broaden thought and action repertoires, helping us build social resources

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Misattribution of arousal

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Attributing arousal produced by one cause (for example, exercise) to another stimulus in the environment

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Directed facial action task

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A task in which moving emotion specific facial muscles triggers different autonomic responses

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Duration neglect

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The relative unimportance of the length of an emotional experience, be it pleasurable or unpleasant in judging the overall experience

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Affective forecasting

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predicting our future emotions-for example, whether an event will make us happy, angry or sad and for how long

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Immune neglect

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The tendency to underestimate our capacity to be resilient in responding to difficult life events, which leads us to overestimate the extent to which life's difficulties will reduce our personal well being

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Focalism

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A tendency to focus too much on a central aspect of an event while neglecting to consider the impact of ancillary aspects of the event or the impact of other events