Kap 7. Emotion, temperement and personality

Question 1

Negative bias

Answer 1

er en kognitiv skjevhet som, selv når positive eller nøytrale ting av lik intensitet oppstår, har ting av mer negativ natur en større effekt på ens psykologiske tilstand og prosesser enn nøytrale eller positive ting.

Question 2

Emotional contagion

Answer 2

spontan spredning av følelser og relatert atferd.

når noen rundt oss føler en følese og vi “pick it up” og føler det samme

Question 3

Emotional regulation

Answer 3

person’s ability to effectively manage and respond to an emotional experience.

Question 4

situation modification

Answer 4

changing aspects of a physical situation to change its emotional impact, without simply avoiding the situation.

Question 5

Attentional development

Answer 5

emotion regulation strategy that involves shifting attentional focus within an emotional scene in order to modulate emotional experience.

Question 6

situation selection

Answer 6

Situation selection consists in choosing an upcoming emotional situation in order to regulate emotions.

It was found to be a strategy with powerful effects on emotional negative experience and physiological arousal. Situation selection is supposed to be efficient through the empowering effect of choice itself.

Question 7

Response Modification

Answer 7

another emotional regulation

refers to efforts to modify an emotion after it has been fully generated.

Question 8

Preparedness for Acquring Certain Fears

Answer 8

The preparnedness model suggest that a toodler will be much more prone to develop a fear of snakes than to develop a fear of neutral objects

• Treat detection
• Disgust

Question 9

Temperament

Answer 9

An infants tendency toward particular emotional and behavioral responses to specific situations

Question 10

Basic ideas about difference in temperment

Answer 10

• Parents behavior/style
• Childs behavior style
• Relation between early temperament and later personality

Question 11

Ascepts of behavior

Answer 11

Abilities = Capacities
Motivation = Reason
Temprerament = Style

Question 12

Temperament Traits

Answer 12

• Sensitivity/threshold
• Intensity of reaction
• Activity level
• Adaptability
• Approach / Withdrawal
• Attention span & Persistence
• Rhythmicity
• Quality of mood
• Distractibility

Question 13

Er temperement arvelig?

Answer 13

Ja, faktisk 50-60% av et barns temperement kommer fra gener.