Emotions and personality

Question 1

what is emotion ?

Answer 1

• monmoterary/temporary experinced in a specific situation

-traits,or dispositional tendacies to chronically experience certain feelings

-moods,temperament,emotional disorder

Question 2

are are the parts of emotions

Answer 2

-feelings
-thoughrs
physiology
-brain activation
non verbal expression

Question 3

the emotional process

Answer 3

event>cognitive appraisal event>emotional experience (physiology feelings)>emotional expression

Question 4

how do we regulate emotions ?

Answer 4

by manipulating our cognitive apraisal or emotional experience or emotional expression

Question 5

which personality traits predict happiness

Answer 5

extraversion and neuroticism

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

probably the first one,

placed in the same situation, extraverts and neurotics have different emotional responses

*Extraverts become happier from pleasant photos
* Neurotics become more upset from unpleasant
photos

Question 7

when do emotions become personality traits?

Answer 7

the stable tendacy to experience certain feelings or have certain emotional reactions

Question 8

what was aristotles view of happiness?

Answer 8

being good bring happiness

Question 9

what does Rousseau view happiness

Answer 9

hendoism: doing what feels good

Question 10

how does reserch defines happines?

Answer 10

-Cognitive-affective Approch : judgment of life satisfaction AND tendacy to experience positive vs negative emotions

Question 11

Martin Seligman view happines as

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Daniel Kahneman view happines as

Answer 12

positive emotions (hedoism)

Question 13

happiness facts

Answer 13

-their is no difference in happines in gender or age

Question 14

what makes some countries more happy then others ?

Answer 14

collectivism/individualism and wealth
poor countries:
-don’t have health care
-civil rights

Question 15

are poor people within a country more unhappy?

Answer 15

-only if they can not by necessities(food,shelter,healthcare)

-rich people are not much happier then poor people

Question 16

Oishi,kebesire and Dienere

Answer 16

they examned happiness and income inequalities in the US

-found negative correlation between happiness and inequality(less inequality more happiness)
-this was due to perceived unfairness among the poorest

Question 17

happiness and set-points

Answer 17

emotions change in response to major life events
but they quickly return to a basic-set
(average set point : more happy then neutral

Question 18

Zheng,Plomin and Stumm

Answer 18

-genetic reserch on trait happiness
-twin studies

found:

-variation in traits negative affect (53) due to genetics
- variation in traits positive affect is due to (52) shared environment

Question 19

hedoism

Answer 19

the sum of plasent moments

Question 20

Eudemonia

Answer 20

the life well-lived;meaning and purpose

Question 21

if asked your daily satisfaction

Answer 21

use hendoism : boost positive affect,decrese negative affect

Question 22

id asked your life satisfection

Answer 22

use eudemonia:meaning/purpose in life is the most important (not emotion)

Question 23

what are 3 umplesent emotions?

Answer 23

anger.depression and anxiety

Question 24

trait anxiety

Answer 24

-moody, touchy,irritable,complaning
-easily upset

biological origins
-stable across lifespan
-cross culture
-more active in BIS

-recall more self-relevant negative information
-recall being sick more often

Question 25

depression: Diathesis-stress model

Answer 25

-pre existing vulnability gets activated by enviroment
-genetic evidence

Question 26

depression:Beck’s cognitive theory

Answer 26

cognitive triad:depressing view of the3 self,the worl and future

global,stable,internal

Question 27

Anger-Proneness and Hostility

Answer 27

-tendacy to respond to everyday frustrations with anger and aggression
-resentment

Question 28

Biological model:type A personality

Answer 28

-Friedman-cardolagist
-noticed personality similarities among coronary heart disease passiants

(workholics,overchivers,hostile,hurried,never relexed

Question 29

hostility

Answer 29

-smoking,depression,obeidity and haert disses lips buid up and increased BP and HR

Question 30

two facet theory

Answer 30

-authentic and hubristic pride

Question 31

authentic pride

Answer 31

-foster geunine self esteem
promots social investiment and achivment

Question 32

hubristic pride

Answer 32

promotes hostility,maladptive relationships
related to narcissim
releted to aggression,hostility

Question 33

people who tend to feel authentic pride

Answer 33

-high self esteem
agreeable,extraverted,emotionally stable and contiacious
-well-liked

Question 34

people who tend to feel hubristic pride

Answer 34

-narcistic
shame-prone
-disagreeable,agressive,hostile and agry
anxious in relationships and weak friendships

Question 35

what is imponrtant to understand about the two facets?

Answer 35

-importance of context and that their is not evidence for distinct expressions