emotions

Question 1

cognitive approach to emotion

Answer 1

• Antecedent primary appraisal: what is happening? Physiological and neural, understanding what is going on in the environemnt
  
  • Secondary appraisal: what can I do about it? Cognitions, feelings and motivations: this is the response to the event. Critically thinking - which involves labels and subjective thinking, they also involve motivation.
  • Action: communication, expression and feelings. Evolve as a way to address the event and emotions, eg/ communicate emotions so others understand how you are feeling.

Question 2

cog approach value

Answer 2

• Cog approach gives us a narrative for how events and emotions unfold, rather than one event it is a narrative and series of events.
  
  • From the cognitive model: Emotions seen as process which inform our appraisals, of how we respond to stimuli by changing the way we interpret to events we can alter the emotional experience of these events.

Question 3

dynamic model of emotion

Answer 3

The way these elements interact can assist with determining the emotional experience of an individual.
- Physiological responses: heartrate, breath rate
- Cognition: this is high, check seatbelt
- Motivations: stop ride/ avoid death
- Emotions experiences : tense grip, hold breath
- Subjective feelings: panic, shame, excitement.
- We can shift one element, and this should shift other elements.

Question 4

emotion regulation

Answer 4

involves the conscious and unconscious processes used to monitor, modify and modulate emotional experiences and expressions.

Question 5

the ability to emotionally regulate comes with development. stages:

Answer 5

• Infancy: reliant on caregivers for regulation
• Toddlerhood: respond to others needs and new emotions
• Middle and early childhood: develop behavioral and cognitive strategies
• Late childhood: 9-11 cognitive strategies, using motivators as motivators and manipulate behavior for goals
  Adolescence: ER is disrupted by changes during puberty. Eg. Arousal, motivation and risk-taking)

Question 6

temperament and reactivity and self regulation

Answer 6

temperament: a person’s characteristics way of feeling and responding to emotion’
Informed by:
Reactivity: patterns of arousal, motor activity and attention
Self regulation: modifying and adjusting reactivity.

Question 7

tempement profules

Answer 7

challenging: 10%; spirited, has especially big emotions, has a hard time with change
slow-to-warm: 15%: observes before joining cautious in new situations, sensitive to others’ emotions
combination: 35%: has characteristics of different temperament types
easy: 40%; easygoing, flexible, adapt easy to new situation

Question 8

temperament study findings

Answer 8

• temperament is stable but can be changed
• difficult temperaments: adjustment problems, mental health issues, larning problems