emotion

Question 1

What is emotion:

Answer 1

discrete momentary experiences in a specific situation

Question 2

What are the parts of an emotion?

Answer 2

Feelings

thoughts/cognition

Physiology

Brain activation

Nonverbal expression

Question 3

The emotion process

Answer 3

Antecedent event>cognitive appraisal of event(way you interpret event)->emotional experience(physiology feelings)->emotional expression(facial expressions,behaviors)

Question 4

Which personality traits predict happiness?

Answer 4

Extraversion and neuroticism

Question 5

Alternative model

Answer 5

Personality specific behavior->situations that might lead to happiness->emotional response

Question 6

Does personality affect a person’s emotional response to a situation or does personality determine which situations a person engages in

Answer 6

personality affects a person’s emotional response to a situation

Question 7

Definitions of happiness

Answer 7

Aristotle: goal of life, attained through virtuosity

Rosseau:hedonism (do what makes you happy)

James: accomplishments

Question 8

Cognitive-affective approach

Answer 8

Judgement of life’s satisfactions
How satisfied are you with your life?
AND tendency to experience positive vs negative emotions

Question 9

Martin seligman:

Answer 9

authentic happiness is based on living a life filled with purpose and meaning

Question 10

Daniel kahneman

Answer 10

Positive (not negative)emotions
Do what feels good (hedonism)

Question 11

Happy facts

Answer 11

Average person is
Happy 65% of time
Neutral 15%
Unhappy 20%

only difference between countries

Question 12

What makes some countries happier than others

Answer 12

Subjective well being and individualism

Culture is more predictive of happiness than wealth (stronger correlation)

Question 13

Why are poorer countries less happy?

Answer 13

health care and civil rights

Question 14

What about within countries? Are poorer people more unhappy?

Answer 14

not really, unless they dont have basic necessities

Question 15

neg correlation between happy and inequality

Answer 15

As inequality increased, happiness has gone down (due to perception that you cant trust others due to inequality)

Question 16

Good life

Answer 16

For daily satisfaction, go for hedonism
Boost positive affect

For life satisfaction go for eudemonia
Emotions don’t matter
Meaning purpose matters

Question 17

Trait anxiety(neuroticism)

Answer 17

Moody, touchy, irritable, complaining
Easily upset

Question 18

Biological origins
of neuroticism

Answer 18

Stable across lifespan
Cross-cultural
More active BIS

Question 19

cognitive bias in neuroticism

Answer 19

Recall more self-relevant negative information

Recall being sick more often, may get sick more often

Question 20

Depression

Answer 20

Diathesis-stress model
Pre-existing vulnerability gets activated
Genetic evidence
Beck’s cognitive theory
Cognitive triad: depressing view of self, the world, and future
Overgeneralization (global attributions)
Personalizing (internal attributions)
Catastrophizing (stable attributions; the worst will always happen)

Question 21

Anger proneness and hostility

Answer 21

Tendency to respond to everyday frustrations with anger and aggression

Biological model: type A
**Cardiologist noticed personality similarities among coronary heart disease patients and type A

Question 22

explanation of type a

Answer 22

it is the hostility that linked to coronory heart disase

Question 23

pride proness

Answer 23

Two facet theory:
1)Authentic pride
2)Hubristic pride(absence of achieving something)