Chapter 6 Terms Flashcards
Emotion
A conscious evaluative reaction that is clearly linked to some event.
Mood
A feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event.
Affect
The automatic response that something is good (positive affect) or bad (negative affect).
Conscious Emotion
A powerful and clearly unified feeling state, such as anger or joy.
Automatic Affect
A quick response of liking or disliking toward something.
Arousal
A physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions.
James-Lange Theory of Emotion
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.
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
The idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions.
Schatcher-Singer Theory of Emotion
The idea that emotion has two components: a bodily state of general arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion.
Excitation Transfer
The idea that arousal from one event can transfer to a later event.
Appraisal Theory of Emotion
The idea that emotion is determined by how an event in the environment is appraised (e.g., evaluated, interpreted, explained).
Affect Balance
The frequency of positive emotions minus the frequency of negative emotions
Life Satisfaction
An evaluation of how ones life is generally and how it compares to some standard
Hedonic Treadmill
A theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them.
Emodiversity
Refers to how much a person experiences a variety of different emotions.
Anger
An emotional response to a real of imagined threat or provocation
Catharsis Theory
The proposition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release of those emotions and is therefore good for the psyche.
Guilt
An unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly
Shame
A moral emotions that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person.
Survivor guilt
An unpleasant emotion associated with living through an experience during which other people died
Disgust
A strong negative feeling of repugnance and revulsion
Affective Forecasting
The ability to predict one’s own emotional reactions to future events
Risk-As-Feeling Hypothesis
The idea that people rely on emotional processes to evaluate risk, with the result that their judgements may be biased by emotional factors
Broaden-and-Build Theory
The proposition that positive emotions expand an individuals attention and mind-set and promote increasing one’s resources.
Yerkes-Dodson Law
The proposition that some arousal is better than none, but too much can hurt performance.
Emotional Intelligence
The ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions.
Dark Tetrad of Personality
Four dark personality traits, narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism - that are related to emotional intelligence.
