Emotions

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

A brief, specific response, involving appraisals, experiences, expressions, and physiology, that helps people meet goals, including social goals

Question 2

What do our emotions influence?

Answer 2

Help us interpret our surroundings, guide our actions and motivates behaviour to achieve our goals

Question 3

What is an appraisal?

Answer 3

The interpretation an individual gives to a situation that gives rise to the experience of the emotion

Question 4

What is the physiological aspect of emotion?

Answer 4

All emotions have accompanying bodily responses

Question 5

What is the psychological aspect of emotion?

Answer 5

Interpretation of events based on how pleasant, fair etc. the event is to you

Question 6

Are facial expressions the same across all cultures?

Answer 6

yes they are innate

Question 7

What is a focal emotion?

Answer 7

An emotion that is especially common within a particular culture

Question 8

What is the appraisal theory?

Answer 8

is the idea that emotions are a result of evaluating an event or situation as beneficial or harmful.

Question 9

What is the first step of the appraisal process?

Answer 9

Primary; is the intial, quick appraisal made of an event/circumstance

Question 10

What is the second step of the appraisal process?

Answer 10

Secondary; is the later, concerns why we feel the way we do and how we would like to respond

Question 11

What is the reappraisal process?

Answer 11

The process of reinterpreting the causes of an emotion and its meaning for the individual

Question 12

What is an ideal emotion?

Answer 12

An emotion that promotes cultural values

Question 13

What is emotional regulation?

Answer 13

they ways people modify their emotions and make themselves feel better

Question 14

What is acceptance in emotions?

Answer 14

Adopting an open and welcoming attitude to one’s emotions

Question 15

What is suppression in emotions?

Answer 15

An emotion regulation strategy by which people attenuate the outward signs of the emotion

Question 16

What is the social functional theory?

Answer 16

emotions and experience enable people to form, maintain and negotiate the relationships that matter most to them

Question 17

How do emotions influence commitment?

Answer 17

the expression of certain emotions signals our commitment to other’s well being, (release of oxytocin)

Question 18

How do emotions influence collaboration?

Answer 18

emotions can motivate us to act in ways that prioritize the wellbeing of others

Question 19

What is the broaden and build hypothesis?

Answer 19

negative emotions focus our attention on the narrow details whilw positive emotions helps us expand our understanding of the world & build relationships

Question 20

What is cultural variation in happiness?

Answer 20

for western cultures, personal achievement = happiness

for Asian cultures, maintaining harmonious relationships and fulfilling duties = happiness

Question 21

Can we predict our emotions accurately?

Answer 21

affective forecasting is often incorrect

Question 22

What is immune neglect?

Answer 22

the tendency to overestimate emotional reactions (painful experiences are often less upsetting than we expect them to be)

Question 23

What is focalism?

Answer 23

tendency to focus on only once aspect of an experience or event when trying to predict future emotions

Question 24

What is Kohlberg’s rational model?

Answer 24

a model that describes how children develop morality and moral reasonin, suggets theory occurs in 3 levels and 6 stages

Question 25

What occurs during stage 1 and 2 of Kohlberg’s rational model?

Answer 25

Stage 1 - obedience and punishment oriented

Stage 2 - self interest oriented

Occurs when during childhood, egocentric and faces moral decisions

Question 26

What occurs during stage 3 and 4 of Kohlberg’s rational model?

Answer 26

Stage 3 - interpersonal conformity orientation

Stage 4 - authority orientation

Occurs during adolescence and in some adults, conventional moral decisions

Question 27

What occurs during stage 5 and 6 of Kohlberg’s rational model?

Answer 27

Stage 5 - Social contract orientation

Stage 6 - universal ethics

Occurs during adult ‘morality’ and moral reasoning trumps social norms

Question 28

What criticism does Kohlberg’s rational model face?

Answer 28

WEIRD, androcentric

(Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic)

Question 29

What is Haidt’s Social Intuitionist Model?

Answer 29

the idea that people have fast emotional reactions to morally relevant events that in turn influence their process of reasoning toward a judgement of right and wrong

Question 30

What is the moral foundation theory?

Answer 30

a theory proposing that their are 5 universal moral domains in which specific emotions guide moral judgements

Question 31

What are the individualizing moral domains?

Answer 31

harm/care, fairness/reciprocity

Question 32

What are the binding moral domains?

Answer 32

loyalty, authority and purity