Social Psych Week 3 Lecture 2: Emotions

Front 1

What is Darwin's 3 hypothesis about emotional expressions?

Back 1

1) all humans have the same facial muscles

2) since humans share an evolutionary history with other mammals, our emotionally expressive behavior should resemble those of other species. 3) blind people still show expressions similar to those of cited people.

Front 2

what are the 6 main basic emotions?

Back 2

1) happiness

2) sadness

3) fear

4) disgust

5) anger

6) suprise

Front 3

what was the point of showing us that little dots moving around the screen and us knowing the action was for?

Back 3

It was to show us that emotional signals conveyed through body movement are recognized accurately across cultures and are similar across remote cultures.

Front 4

does fear expressions allow us to take in or get out?

Back 4

Fear expressions allow us to take in more information.

Front 5

Does disgust allow us to take in or get out?

Back 5

Disgust allows us to take out, they give more visual accuracy.

Front 6

What are emotional accents?

Back 6

When some cultures have emotions unique to them. Specific ways people from different cultures express a particular emotion. ex) in india, embarrassment could mean sticking your tongue out.

Front 7

What is he facial action coding system?

Back 7

A system that can identify all facial movements by coding all possible combinations of facial expressions.

Front 8

what is the hedonic treadmill?

Back 8

the observed tendency for humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative life changes. ex) lottery winners do not report different levels of happiness than averse people or handicapped people.

Front 9

what is flow?

Back 9

when you become lost in a challenge but it is attainable. q

Front 10

what is Larry David's happiness recipe?

Back 10

1) be focused on something that you like, a sense of purpose, satisfying relationships, a living wage, bein g engaged with work or other activities.

Front 11

what is emotion?

Back 11

a brief specific response that is psychological and physiological that helps people meet goals, including social goals.

Front 12

what is the appraisal process?

Back 12

Consisting of patterns of construal by which we evaluate events and objects in our environment according to the relation to or current goals .

Front 13

what is the principle of serviceable associated habits?

Back 13

the idea that expressions of human emotion we observe today derived from actions that proved useful in our evolutionary past.

Front 14

what are focal emotions?

Back 14

an emotion that is especially common within a particular culture. ex) shame in interdependent cultures.

Front 15

what are display rules?

Back 15

culturally specific rules that govern how, when and to whom people express emotion.

Front 16

what are the two ways that emotions sole the commitment problem?

Back 16

1) the expression of certain emotions signals our sincere commitments to others well being.

2) emotions can motivate us to stop thinking about ourself and think about others.

Front 17

what is emotional intelligence?

Back 17

the ability to express, recognize and use emotions within social interactions.

Front 18

what are the 4 skills that define eq

Back 18

1) the ability to understand someones emotions

2) ability to perceive someones emotions

3) ability to use current feelings to aid in making good decisions.

4) ability to manage ones emotions in ways that it fits current situations.

Front 19

what is the broaden and build hypothesis?

Back 19

the idea that positive emotions broaden thoughts and actions, helping people build social resources.

Front 20

what is natural dumbfounding?

Back 20

When you cant explain why something is wrong but you know that its wrong.

Front 21

what is the social intuitionist model of moral judgement?

Back 21

the idea that at first people react fast to morally relevant events then you use reasoning to arrive at the judgement of right or wrong.

Front 22

what is the moral foundations theory?

Back 22

states that there are 5 universal moral domains in which specific emotions guide moral judgements

1) corelharm

2)fairness/cheating

3)loyalty/betrayel

4) authority/submission

5) purity/degredation

Front 23

what are the two measurable components of happiness?

Back 23

1) life satisfaction

2) emotional well being

Front 24

what is effective forcasting?

Back 24

When you are able to predict what type of emotion you are going to feel later on. predicting future emotions.

Front 25

what is immune neglect?

Back 25

the tendency for people to underestimate their capacity to be resilliant in responding to difficult life events, which leads them to overestimate the extent to which life's problems will reduce their personal well being.

Front 26

what is focalism?

Back 26

we focus too much on the most immediate elements of significant events

Front 27

what is duration neglect?

Back 27

Giving relative unimportance to the length of an emotional experience whether pleasurable or unpleasant in judging and remembering the overall experience.