9.14-9.18: Emotion Flashcards
The coordinated behaviors, feelings, and physiological changes that occur when a situation becomes relevant to our personal goals
Emotion
Cultural rules that govern the expression of emotion
Display rules
An approach to analyzing emotions that focuses on specific emotions such as anger, fear, and pride.
Discrete emotions approach
An approach to analyzing emotions that focuses on dimensions such as pleasantness and activation
Dimensional approach
An extreme difficulty in identifying and labeling one’s emotions
Alexithymia
The level of happiness that is characteristic of a given individual
Happiness set point
The tendency to frow accustomed to (and cease paying attention to) any stimulus or state to which one is continuously exposed
Adaptation
The theory that the subjective experience of emotion is the awareness of one’s own bodily reactions in the presence of certain arousing stimuli
James-Lange theory
The theory that a stimulus elicits an emotion by triggering a particular response in the brain (in the thalamus), which then causes both the physiological changes associated with the motion and the emotional experience itself
Cannon-Bard theory
The theory that emotion arises from the interpretation of bodily responses in the context of situational cues
Schachter-Singer theory
The capacity to accurately track what others are feeling
Empathy
The idea that affective states play an important role in shaping problem solving and decision making
Affect-as-information perspective
