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What is emotion?

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The subjective state of being that we often describe as our feelings.

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What is the difference between mood and emotion?

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Mood does not carry the intentionality that emotion does.

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What are the components of emotion?

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  • Physiological arousal
  • Psychological appraisal
  • Subjective experiences
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What is the basis of the James-lange theory or emotion?

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All emotion arises from psychological arousal.

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What is the basis for the cannon-bard theory of emotion?

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Emotion and psychological arousal occur simultaneously.

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What is the basis for the Schachter-singer theory of emotion?

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Emotions are composed of two factors - Physiological and cognitive = emotion.

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What is the cognitive meditational theory of emotion?

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States that our emotions are determined by our appraisal of the stimulus.

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AER is Automatic emotion regulation. remember that.

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What is the limbic system and list its parts.

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The limbic system is the part of the brain that deals with memory and emotion.

  • Hypothalamus
  • Hippocampus
  • Thalamus
  • Amygdala
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What is the role of the Hypothalamus?

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Fight of flight

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What is the role of the thalamus?

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It relays information from body to other parts of the limbic system.

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What is the role of the amygdala?

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It processes emotional information.

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What is the role of the Hippocampus?

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Relating emotional experiences to cognition.

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What is the cultural display rule?

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How much emotion is okay to display?

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What are the basic emotions?

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  • Anger
  • Disgust
  • Happiness
  • Sadness
  • Surprise
  • Fear
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What is cognitive appraisal?

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This is the cognitive interpretation that accompanies emotion.

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What is valance of emotion?

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Wether the experience emotion is pleasant or unpleasant?

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What are secondary and primary emotions?

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Secondary emotions take the slow pathway and are generally associated with overthinking about the past. Primary emotions take the fast pathway (straight from thalamus to amygdala, while the slow pathway is form thalamus then through the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala).

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What is misattribution of arousal?

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People incorrectly attributing the source of the arousal that they are experiencing.

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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

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A facial expression will illicit the corresponding emotion.

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What is a confederate within an experiment?

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This is someone who is in on the experiment.

22
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What is conformity?

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This is a change in someones behavior in order to fit into a group.

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What is the Asch effect?

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Change in individual judgement based on group majority.

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What is normative social influence?

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This is when an individual conforms to a group in order to fit in.

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What is informational social influence?

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This is when an individual conform to a group because they perceive them as intelligent and educated.

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What is obedience?

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This is when an individual changes their behavior in order to comply to the demands of an authority figure.

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What os groupthink?

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The modification of an individuals beliefs based on what they believe is the group consensus.

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What is group polarization?

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Group discussion strengthens initial viewpoint of the whole group.

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What is altruism?

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This is any behavior that is designed to increase another persons wellbeing.

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What is reciprocal altruism?

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This is when we help someone because we think that they will help us later on.

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What is diffusion of responsibility?

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This is when we assume that others will take responsibility so we refrain from doing anything?

32
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What is aggression?

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This is behavior that is intended to hurt other people, and it is controlled by amygdala.

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What is catharsis? and does it work?

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This is the idea that engaging in less aggressive behavior such as punching a pillow will decrease overall aggression. It does not work.

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What is desensitization?

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A tendency to over time show weaker emotional responses to emotional stimuli.

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What is minority influence?

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this is when a smaller group influences the ideas of a larger group.

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What is Psychological reactance?

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This is a strong emotional response that prevents people from conforming.

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What is situationism?

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This idea that our behavior and emotions are determined by our surroundings.

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What is internal factor?

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The attributes of a person and their personality traits.

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What are fundamental attribution errors?

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When we falsely assume that the behaviors of a person are the traits of that person.

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What is Actor-Observer bias?

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This is when we falsely assume that everyone else’s behaviors are due to internal factors but ours are due to situational factors.

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What is a self-serving bias?

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This is when we tend to attribute our success to internal factors but not our shortcomings.

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What is the just-world hypothesis?

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The idea that people get what they deserve.

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What is prejudice?

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This is when someone has a negative attitude or feeling towards an individual solely based on their membership to a community.

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What is discrimination?

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When people act on their prejudiced beliefs.

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What is scape-goating?

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This is when we blame the out-group for anything bad that happens in the in-group.

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What is a confounding variable?

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The variable that is ACTUALLY causing the change.

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