Class Notes (Prep for Exam 2) Flashcards

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What are Emotions?

A

Our body’s responses to any goal-related event. Different from Moods, Emotions are Feelings, often Prolonged, that have no Identifiable Causes.

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Physiological Emotion

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Your body responds to emotions in physical ways

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Cognitive Emotion

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How you think about emotions affects how you experience them.

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Behavioral Emotion

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Emotions motivate us to do things. (Shame, Guilt, Joy)

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Social/Cultural Emotion

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Our experience of Emotions in America is different than emotions that others feel elsewhere. (Love, Shame, Honor)

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Emotions vary in _______ and __________.

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  • Intensity (How Strong)

- Valence (How Positive/Negative)

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Simple Emotion

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Happiness (Singular)

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Complex Emotion

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Anxious = (Fearful + Happy)

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Meta Emotion

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Emotional reactions to emotions about feelings.

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Emotions are Guided by Expectations

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  1. Display Rules

2. Emotion Labor: The expectation that you’ll show certain emotions

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What is Emotion Influenced By?

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  1. Culture
  2. Sex & Gender
  3. Technology
  4. Personality
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12
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What is Emotional Intelligence?

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Shows in skills, being a competent communicator, recognizing personal emotions, and learning to recognize and manage emotions in other people.

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What is Emotion Contagion?

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The spread of Emotions.

“Emotions are Contagious”

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Emotions are Communication

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(Biting My Nails/Worried Facial Expression = I Am Stressed/Nervous)

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Communication Can Be Emotional (NonVerbal)

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(I Am Describing My Midterms While Biting My Nails/Facial Expression)

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Communication Impacts Emotion

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(You Reminding Me of My Midterms Makes Me Stressed/Nervous)

17
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Emotion Impacts Communication

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(My Nervousness/Stress Elicits Your Sympathy/Support)

18
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What is Envy?

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The Feeling that you have when you want something that someone else has.
-“I want what you have.”

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When Do We Feel Envy?

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When the Situation is:

  • Relevant
  • Similar
  • Negative (You have something I don’t have)
20
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What are the Consequences of Envy?

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  • Degrading the Other
  • Happy when they Fail
  • Negative Self-Image
  • Motivation
21
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What is Jealousy?

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I perceive someone is threatening my relationship itself and/or its quality.

22
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When Do We Feel Jealousy?

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When the Situation Is:

  • Loneliness
  • Uniqueness
  • Esteem
  • Rules
  • Context
23
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What is Listening?

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  • More than just hearing
  • A learned skill
  • Impacted by cultural expectations for Verbal Communication
24
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What are the 6 Stages of Listening?

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  1. Hearing
  2. Understanding
  3. Remembering
  4. Interpreting
  5. Evaluating
  6. Responding
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What are the 3 Types of Listening?

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  1. Informational Listening
  2. Critical Listening
  3. Empathic Listening
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What is Informational Listening?

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When you are listening to learn about something.

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What is Critical Listening?

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Is there evidence to back up a claim or idea?

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What is Empathic Listening?

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Listening to understand how the speaker feels about something.

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What are the Barriers to Listening?

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  • Noise (Internal & External)
  • Pseudo-Listening/Selective Attention
  • Information Overload
  • Glazing Over
  • Rebuttal Tendency (Out-Loud or In-Head)
  • Being Close-Minded
  • Competitive Interrupting
30
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How do you improve Informational Listening?

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  • Separate what is and isn’t said
  • Avoid Confirmation Bias
  • Listen for Substance more than Style
31
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How do you improve Critical Listening?

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  • Be a Skeptic
  • Evaluate a Speaker’s Credibility (Ethos)
  • Understand Probability
32
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How do you improve Empathic Listening?

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  • Listen Non-Judgmentally
  • Acknowledge Feelings
  • Communicate Support Non-Verbally