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Define emotions? |
A motivated state marked by physiological arousal, expressive behaviour, and mental experience. |
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What are discrete emotions? |
Theory that humans experience a small number of separate emotions, that combine to create the emotional experience. |
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What are some of the adaptive functions of emotions? |
Focus attention (fear), avoid toxins (disgust), and motivate behaviour (lust). |
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What are the 7 basic emotions that are experienced by all people in all cultures? |
-Happiness -Anger -Surprise -Contempt -Disgust -Sadness -Fear |
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When do emotions emerge? |
In the first 9 months of life. |
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What are secondary emotions? |
Complex emotions that combine primary emotions. (guilt, embarrassment, regret) |
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What are display rules? |
Culturally derived guidelines controlling how and when to express emotions. |
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What are the cognitive theories of emotion? |
The Canon-bard, the James-lang, and the Two factor theory. |
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What is the James-Lange theory? |
Experience of emotion is caused by somatic feedback. |
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What is the Canon-Bard theory of emotion? |
The thalamus simultaneously stimulates experience and physiological response. |
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What is the Two factor theory? |
Producing an emotion requires two factors: -Undifferentiated state of arousal -Attempt to explain our arousal (why am I aroused, label arousal with an emotion) |
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What is body language? |
Nonverbal expression. |
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What is nonverbal leakage? |
Unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behaviour. |
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What are gestures? |
A form of nonverbal expression. |
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What are the 3 types of gestures? |
Illustrators, manipulators, and emblems. |
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What are illustrators? |
Highlight and accentuate. |
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What are manipulators? |
Touch, stroke, poke another body part. |
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What are emblems? |
Gestures conveying established meanings. |
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What are proxemics? |
Boundaries of personal space. |
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What are the 4 proxemics? |
Intimate, personal, social, and public. |
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What is positive psychology? |
Emphasizes human strengths, such as resilience, coping, life satisfaction, love and happiness. (Focus on becoming better than well - "reaching your full potential") |
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Is up to 50% of happiness genetically based? |
Yes. |
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Is happiness correlated with longevity? |
Yes. |
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Does happiness broaden and build? |
Yes, it allows us to think more openly, allowing us to see the big picture we might have otherwise overlooked. |
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Is happiness correlated with increase performance? |
Yes. |
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What are some of the myths surrounding happiness? |
-The prime determinant of happiness is what happens to us. -Money makes us happy. -Happiness declines in old age. -Happiness and negative motions lie on apposite ends of the spectrum. -People on the west coast are the happiest. |
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What are some of the things correlated with happiness? |
Marriage, friendships, college, religion, political affiliation, exercise, gratitude, giving, flow. |
