Emotions and personality Flashcards

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what is emotion ?

A
  • monmoterary/temporary experinced in a specific situation

-traits,or dispositional tendacies to chronically experience certain feelings

-moods,temperament,emotional disorder

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are are the parts of emotions

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-feelings
-thoughrs
physiology
-brain activation
non verbal expression

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the emotional process

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

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how do we regulate emotions ?

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by manipulating our cognitive apraisal or emotional experience or emotional expression

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5
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which personality traits predict happiness

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extraversion and neuroticism

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

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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

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when do emotions become personality traits?

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

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what was aristotles view of happiness?

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being good bring happiness

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what does Rousseau view happiness

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hendoism: doing what feels good

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how does reserch defines happines?

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

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Martin Seligman view happines as

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

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12
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Daniel Kahneman view happines as

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positive emotions (hedoism)

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13
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happiness facts

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-their is no difference in happines in gender or age

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what makes some countries more happy then others ?

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

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are poor people within a country more unhappy?

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

-rich people are not much happier then poor people

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Oishi,kebesire and Dienere

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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

17
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happiness and set-points

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

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Zheng,Plomin and Stumm

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-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

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hedoism

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the sum of plasent moments

20
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Eudemonia

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the life well-lived;meaning and purpose

21
Q

if asked your daily satisfaction

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use hendoism : boost positive affect,decrese negative affect

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id asked your life satisfection

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

23
Q

what are 3 umplesent emotions?

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anger.depression and anxiety

24
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trait anxiety

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-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

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depression: Diathesis-stress model
-pre existing vulnability gets activated by enviroment -genetic evidence
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depression:Beck's cognitive theory
cognitive triad:depressing view of the3 self,the worl and future global,stable,internal
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Anger-Proneness and Hostility
-tendacy to respond to everyday frustrations with anger and aggression -resentment
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Biological model:type A personality
-Friedman-cardolagist -noticed personality similarities among coronary heart disease passiants (workholics,overchivers,hostile,hurried,never relexed
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hostility
-smoking,depression,obeidity and haert disses lips buid up and increased BP and HR
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two facet theory
-authentic and hubristic pride
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authentic pride
-foster geunine self esteem promots social investiment and achivment
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hubristic pride
promotes hostility,maladptive relationships related to narcissim releted to aggression,hostility
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people who tend to feel authentic pride
-high self esteem agreeable,extraverted,emotionally stable and contiacious -well-liked
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people who tend to feel hubristic pride
-narcistic shame-prone -disagreeable,agressive,hostile and agry anxious in relationships and weak friendships
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what is imponrtant to understand about the two facets?
-importance of context and that their is not evidence for distinct expressions