Chapter 6 Terms

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

A conscious evaluative reaction that is clearly linked to some event.

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

A feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event.

Question 3

Affect

Answer 3

The automatic response that something is good (positive affect) or bad (negative affect).

Question 4

Conscious Emotion

Answer 4

A powerful and clearly unified feeling state, such as anger or joy.

Question 5

Automatic Affect

Answer 5

A quick response of liking or disliking toward something.

Question 6

Arousal

Answer 6

A physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions.

Question 7

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

Answer 7

The proposition that the bodily processes of emotion come first, and then the minds perception of these bodily reactions and creates the subjective feeling of emotion.

Question 8

Facial Feedback Hypothesis

Answer 8

The idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions.

Question 9

Schatcher-Singer Theory of Emotion

Answer 9

The idea that emotion has two components: a bodily state of general arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion.

Question 10

Excitation Transfer

Answer 10

The idea that arousal from one event can transfer to a later event.

Question 11

Appraisal Theory of Emotion

Answer 11

The idea that emotion is determined by how an event in the environment is appraised (e.g., evaluated, interpreted, explained).

Question 12

Affect Balance

Answer 12

The frequency of positive emotions minus the frequency of negative emotions

Question 13

Life Satisfaction

Answer 13

An evaluation of how ones life is generally and how it compares to some standard

Question 14

Hedonic Treadmill

Answer 14

A theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them.

Question 15

Emodiversity

Answer 15

Refers to how much a person experiences a variety of different emotions.

Question 16

Anger

Answer 16

An emotional response to a real of imagined threat or provocation

Question 17

Catharsis Theory

Answer 17

The proposition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release of those emotions and is therefore good for the psyche.

Question 18

Guilt

Answer 18

An unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly

Question 19

Shame

Answer 19

A moral emotions that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person.

Question 20

Survivor guilt

Answer 20

An unpleasant emotion associated with living through an experience during which other people died

Question 21

Disgust

Answer 21

A strong negative feeling of repugnance and revulsion

Question 22

Affective Forecasting

Answer 22

The ability to predict one’s own emotional reactions to future events

Question 23

Risk-As-Feeling Hypothesis

Answer 23

The idea that people rely on emotional processes to evaluate risk, with the result that their judgements may be biased by emotional factors

Question 24

Broaden-and-Build Theory

Answer 24

The proposition that positive emotions expand an individuals attention and mind-set and promote increasing one’s resources.

Question 25

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 25

The proposition that some arousal is better than none, but too much can hurt performance.

Question 26

Emotional Intelligence

Answer 26

The ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions.

Question 27

Dark Tetrad of Personality

Answer 27

Four dark personality traits, narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism - that are related to emotional intelligence.