315 chapter 12

Question 1

Descartes

Answer 1

emotion instills a goal, in person consciousness that emotion then prepares the body/mind to achieve the goal of emotion, hence emotions serve as motivation

Question 2

different appraisals

Answer 2

same event produce different emotions

Question 3

same appraisals

Answer 3

different events produce same emotion

Question 4

amygdala

Answer 4

part of brain that conducts a guide and crude evaluation of novel situations for persons well being, also appraise stimulus below level of consciousness

Question 5

cortex

Answer 5

involved in later more extensive appraisal

Question 6

negative stimulus

Answer 6

detected sooner then positive stimulus

Question 7

fear faces

Answer 7

recognized sooner then happy faces

Question 8

subliminal priming

Answer 8

presenting an emotion stimulus below a persons conscious awareness; can affect emotion channel (smile muscles)

Question 9

extrapyramidal system

Answer 9

spontaneous expressions emerge form an evolutionary older part of brain

Question 10

cortical motor strip

Answer 10

voluntary expressions

Question 11

extrapyramidal system and cortical motor strip function

Answer 11

send information to facial nerve which connects on facial muslce

Question 12

blind facial expressions

Answer 12

innate, less refined because lack of practice and don’t benefit from feedback; David matsumoto

Question 13

emotion recognition

Answer 13

studies show that expressions of emotion all recognized similarly the world over; 63-96%, members identify expressions more accurately for own culture group then for different groups

Question 14

dialect facial expression

Answer 14

vary by country, modified to meet social requirement of specific culture

Question 15

read out hypothesis

Answer 15

a facial expression conveys on individual emotional feeling to another individual

Question 16

behavioral ecology hypothesis

Answer 16

facial expressions are in service to ones social motive to influence others; facials expressions need not be linked to feelings

Question 17

social facial vasodilation

Answer 17

certain social situation, small blood vessels of face and neck expand to permit increased blood blow into those areas, visible blushing in people with pale skin

Question 18

blushing

Answer 18

evaluated, scrutinized, stared at, criticized, praised excessively, violation of social norms, considered incompetent, rude, immoral

Question 19

blush for appeasement

Answer 19

person cares about social normas and want to repair any social damage that was caused in order to deter retardation; blush to escape unwanted attention by casting ones gaze downward to escape scrutiny from others and make others less noticeable to blushing individual

Question 20

display rule

Answer 20

learned social conventions that specify what voluntary facial expressions are to be exhibited in specific situation; people differ in extent they feel rules should be followed

Question 21

display rule assessment inventory

Answer 21

measure the extent that people feel they should alter their facial expressions in presence of family member, close friends, collegues and strangers in various situations

Question 22

motive for action

Answer 22

function of emotions is to induce the individual to deal specifically with emotional event

Question 23

action readiness

Answer 23

impluse/urge to behave in a particular manner, state of preparedness for course of behavior to achieve the aim/goal of an emotion

Question 24

affective realism hypothesis

Answer 24

persons perceptions is based on incoming information + prediction by the brain of what that’ll be, predictions are derived from an individual affect thats the result of prior experience from listening to music, viewing affective faces, or smelling odors

Question 25

most emotions are negative

Answer 25

motivation ceases when

Question 26

subjective well being

Answer 26

happiness, pleasant feeling a person tries to achieve; happy person= satisfied with life, experiences positive affect, less frequent negative affect

Question 27

rise of positive psychology

Answer 27

studying healthy development as important as studying diseases to learn; process that can control positive growth, much can be learned how both routes differ

Question 28

PERMA

Answer 28

positive emotion (happiness), engagement, positive relationships, meaning and purpose, accomplishment

Question 29

happy people have

Answer 29

social wealth (respect, friends, family), physical health, romantic partner, basic physical needs and psychological needs

Question 30

set point level of happiness

Answer 30

level of happiness to which a persons consistently returns following increase or decrease in happiness. partically genetically determined (glass half empty/full); associated with high extroversion and agreeableness and low level of neuroticism

Question 31

hedonic treadmill

Answer 31

people act to try to increase happiness but it’s only temporally, retune to set point, resembles walking down escalator; above 0, some life events don’t allow return to set point/take longer time (divorce)

Question 32

moderation

Answer 32

strives for middle, good in between of happy and sad

Question 33

increase happiness

Answer 33

acting kindly, counting blessing, mindfulness mediation visualizing an ideal future self, uniting letters of gratitude, thinking what grateful for, influence future behavior; people happier before marriage= married longer