CHAPTER 1

Question 1

Affective phenomena

Answer 1

Preferences, Attitudes, Moods, Affective predispositions, Interpersonal stances, Aesthetic emotions, Utilitarian emotions

Question 2

Features of emotions

Answer 2

• Reaction to stimulus / motivate us
• appraisal
• experience/expression component
• short duration
• we can regulate them
• adaptive

Question 3

Function of emotions

Answer 3

Help us display the proper behavior in the situation

Question 4

What is emotion?

Answer 4

a psych state that relates an event, a concern.
gives priority to one goal
gives urgency to a concern

Question 5

Darwin: The evolutionary theory

Answer 5

• taxonomy
• where do they come from
• from our past, as a useful habit
• reflex like mechanisms
• argued for the universality

Question 6

William James: Bodily Approach

Answer 6

first physiological changes, then emotion
emotions move us in bodily ways

Question 7

Freud: Psychoanalytic Approach

Answer 7

• damaging events from past leave us w emotional scars
• agreed w Darwin (link to past)
• psychoanalysis
• relationships w parents in childhood

Question 8

Aristotle on emotions

Answer 8

• Evaluative judgments of events in the world
• depend on what we believe
• we are responsible for our emotions bc we are resp. for our beliefs
• Katharsis

Question 9

Epicureanism

Answer 9

• Epicurus
• Ideas about natural sociality
• right to pursuit happiness

Question 10

Stoicism

Answer 10

• Stoa
• Living naturally and in harmony
• Chrysippus

Question 11

Rene Descartes

Answer 11

• passions
• 6 basic emotions
• closely connected to our bodies
• cannot be fully controlled by thought
• agreed w/ Aristotle

Question 12

George Elliot

Answer 12

• sympathies
• we expe our emotions diff than how ppl see them

Question 13

Magda Arnold

Answer 13

• emotions are based on appraisals of events
• concern
• essentially rational

Question 14

Sylvian Tomkins

Answer 14

• primary motivational system
• amplifiers of drives

Question 15

Ethology

Answer 15

The study of animals & ppl in natural settings

Question 16

Split-Brain operation

Answer 16

• Split brain to avoid epileptic seizures
• IQ, ID, meaningful interactions still there

Question 17

emotion / emotion episode

Answer 17

limited time, known reason

Question 18

mood

Answer 18

• lasts for hours, days, weeks
• unclear reason
• objectless

Question 19

emotional disorders

Answer 19

• depression
• anxiety states
• lasts for weeks, months, years

Question 20

Personality

Answer 20

• based on temperament (u are born w/)