9. Emotions & judgement

Question 1

What three components determine emotions? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 1

• Physiological arousal
• Expressive behaviours
• Cognitive experience

Question 2

What is physiological arousal? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 2

Internal changes involving the ANS and hormones

Question 3

What is expressive behaviours? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 3

Facial expressions/posture and feelings of disposition to behave in a particular way (design on the emotion)

Question 4

What is cognitive experience? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 4

Subjective feeling and knowing why you feel this way

Question 5

What is an emotion? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 5

Specific feeling about something

Question 6

What is mood? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 6

Less intense, longer lasting (than emotion) clearly linked to an event

Question 7

What is affect? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 7

Generic term that covers mood and emotion

Question 8

How does the evolutionary approach explain emotions? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 8

As the promotion of the right response to an occurring situation

Question 9

What is the hot and cold empathy gap? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 9

The ability to underestimate the influence our emotions have on our judgements and decisions

Question 10

What did aristotle state in regards to emotion? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 10

‘The law is reason free from passion’

Question 11

What did Zajonc believe? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 11

Emotions come before cognition

Question 12

What did Lazarus believe? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 12

Cognition comes before emotion

Question 13

What two tasks have shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 13

• Mood congruent theory

- State dependent theory

Question 14

How has mood congruent theory shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 14

We are more likely to retrieve memories that are consistent with our mood

Question 15

How has state dependent theory shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 15

We remember best when encoding ,watches mood at recall

Question 16

What is Bowers network theory (1981)? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 16

Emotional arousal spreads through a network and primes the nodes it is associated with (easier to retrieve these memories)

Question 17

What is depressive realism? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 17

• Depressed individuals make more realistic judgements than those who are not depressed
• Depressed individuals display a positive bias when rating other people (not accurate overall)

Question 18

What is misattribution of arousal? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 18

The process where people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to be aroused

Question 19

How are our emotions and judgements linked? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 19

We use our emotions as a source of information when making a judgement

Question 20

What did Ariely & Loewenstein (2006) find? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 20

When males were sexually aroused, they rated themselves as being more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviours and more likely to involve in data-rape culture

Question 21

What does damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex show? (Emotion & judgement Social)

Answer 21

Impairs the ability to make decisions and learn from mistakes