CH6 Emotion

Question 1

CH 6 Emotion

Emotions

Answer 1

Brief, specific psychological and physiological responses that help humans meet goals, many of which are social. (page 197)

Question 2

CH 6 Emotion

Appraisal processes

Answer 2

The ways people evaluate events and objects in their environment based on their relation to current goals. (page 198)

Question 3

CH 6 Emotion

Core-relational themes

Answer 3

Distinct themes, such as danger or offense or fairness, that define the core of each emotion. (page 198)

Question 4

CH 6 Emotion

Primary appraisal stage

Answer 4

An initial, automatic positive or negative evaluation of ongoing events based on whether they are congruent or incongruent with an individual’s goals. (page 198)

Question 5

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Secondary appraisal stage

Answer 5

A subsequent evaluation in which people determine why they feel the way they do about an event, consider possible ways of responding to the event, and weigh future consequences of different courses of action. (page 198)

Question 6

CH 6 Emotion

Principle of serviceable habits

Answer 6

Charles Darwin’s thesis that emotional expressions are remnants of full-blown behaviors that helped our primate and mammalian predecessors meet important goals in the past. (page 200)

Question 7

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Emotion accents

Answer 7

Culturally specific ways that individuals from different cultures express particular emotions, such as the tongue bite as an expression of embarrassment in India. (page 205)

Question 8

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Focal emotions

Answer 8

Emotions that are especially common within a particular culture. (page 206)

Question 9

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Hypercognize

Answer 9

To represent a particular emotion with numerous words and concepts. (page 207)

Question 10

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Display rules

Answer 10

Culturally specific rules that govern how and when and to whom people express emotion. (page 207)

Question 11

CH 6 Emotion

Infrahumanization

Answer 11

The tendency to be reluctant to attribute more complex emotions, such as pride or compassion, to outgroup members. (page 216)

Question 12

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Feelings-as-information perspective

Answer 12

A theory that since many judgments are too complex for people to thoroughly review all the relevant evidence, they rely on their emotions to provide them with rapid, reliable information about events and conditions within their social environment. (page 217)

Question 13

CH 6 Emotion

Processing style perspective

Answer 13

A theory that different emotions lead people to reason in different ways – for example, that anger facilitates reliance on preexisting heuristics and stereotypes, whereas sadness facilitates more careful attention to situational details. (page 221)

Question 14

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Broaden-and-build hypothesis

Answer 14

The hypothesis that positive emotions broaden thought and action repertoires, helping people build social resources. (page 222)

Question 15

CH 6 Emotion

Duration neglect

Answer 15

The relative unimportance of the length of an emotional experience, be it pleasurable or unpleasant, in judgments of the overall experience. (page 223)

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Affective forecasting

Answer 16

Predicting future emotions – for example, whether an event will result in happiness or anger or sadness, and for how long. (page 224)

Question 17

CH 6 Emotion

Immune neglect

Answer 17

The tendency for people to underestimate their capacity to be resilient in responding to difficult life events, which leads them to overestimate the extent to which life’s difficulties will reduce their personal well-being. (page 225)

Question 18

CH 6 Emotion

Focalism

Answer 18

A tendency to focus too much on a central aspect of an event while neglecting to consider the impact of ancillary aspects of the event or the impact of other events. (page 225)