Emotions

Question 1

What is a quote to show what positive affect can promote ?

Answer 1

shown to “promote cognitive flexibility, innovation, problem solving, and creativity, including creating problem solving”

Question 2

What is the economic theory and the dual process theory when talking about emotions ?

Answer 2

Economic theory = assumes that we are rational decision-makers and the influence of emotion is downplayed

Dual- process theories = Claim that people understand reality in two different ways;
1) Rational and Analytical
2) Intuitive and Automatic

Question 3

What does the key term psychic numbing refer to ?

Answer 3

Psychic numbing - a state of mind like an emotional numbing that we reach not just as individuals but also as communities, it is related to mass murder and genocide , we cannot associate ourselves with these genocides

If someone tells us that 3 people have died we are much more sympathetic and empathetic to them than if they told us that 3000 people have died. Our minds are ‘numb’ as we cannot compute that large amount of people dying, our mind views them more as numbers as oppose to actual people

Question 4

Which reserachers are the ones to highlight the effect of positive affect?

Answer 4

• Isen and Labroo (2003)

Question 5

Describe the experiment and findings from the Isen and Means 1983 study ?

Answer 5

• Respondents deciding between 6 hypothetical cars were more efficient when positive affect had been induced and quicker at making their decisions

Question 6

Outline estrada 1997’s study and what it relates to?

Answer 6

• Looking into positive affect

Doctors were asked to reason aloud as they solved a diagnostic task,
positive affect was induced through a bag of sweets, doctors whom positive affect had been
induced were more likely to be creative and quicker to begin thinking