Exam 5 Flashcards
What are the 3 components of emotion?
- subjective feelings
- bodily changes
- action tendencies
how you feel right now; temporary; depends more on situation than personality
emotional states
how you feel in general; pattern of emotional reactions experienced across time and situations
emotional traits
trying to identify certain primary emotions
categorical approach to studying emotions
emotions serve specific functions; part of categorical approach
functional perspective (approach) to studying emotions
What are Ekman’s 4 requirements for basic emotions?
- innate, not learned
- arise from the same circumstances for all people
- expressed uniquely and distinctly
- evoke a distinctive and highly predictable physiological response
believed in cross-cultural emotional expression and 6 primary emotions
Ekman
believed in the opponent process theory of emotion and 2 primary emotions
Solomon
believed there were 3 primary emotions
Gray
believed there were 7 primary emotions; studied limbic structure pathways
Panksepp
Believed there were 6 primary emotions and different rates of neurological firing
Tomkins
In the Dimensional Approach to studying emotion, what are the 2 basic emotions?
valence (pleasant or unpleasant)
arousal (high or low)
What is the conflict between approaches to studying emotions?
Emotions that are dimensionally similar can be categorically different.
which emotions are experienced
content
how emotions are experienced
style
Content and style are _______, which means they are stable over time and across situations
trait-like
What is the main pleasant emotion?
happiness (subjective well-being)
What are the 2 components of happiness?
- life satisfaction
2. hedonic balance
finding meaning and purpose in life; cognitive (perception of experiences)
life satisfaction
ratio of positive to negative emotional experiences; affective (total sum of emotional experiences)
hedonic balance
Measures of happiness correlate with _________ scores
social desirability
we have overconfidence in ourselves which leads to happiness
better than average effect
What are 3 positive illusions that lead to happiness?
- better than average effect
- illusion of control
- unrealistic optimism
people think they can change things that are beyond our control; autonomy and power lead to happiness; negatively affects depressed people
illusion of control
people think that bad things will not happen to them which leads to happiness
unrealistic optimism
people attribute good outcomes to internal reasons and bad outcomes to external reasons
self serving bias
What is the consequence of the self serving bias?
trade off between being happy and changing perspective and trying to change that
Happy people are ____ helpful, creative, energetic, and trusting, and _______ hostile and abusive
more
less
what is the conclusion drawn from surveys of happiness and subjective well-being?
measures of happiness are valid
What 5 things account for age differences in happiness?
- worry and anxiety
- circumstances leading to happiness change with age
- older adults are generally better at coping
- fewer aspirations in older age
- change of perspective on past difficulties
confounded with availability of health care services and education which predict well-being
national wealth
What 2 big 5 personality traits are associated with happiness?
high extraversion
low neuroticism
strongly influenced by positive stimuli
extraverts
strongly influenced by negative stimuli
neurotic individuals