Knowledge Emotions: Feelings that Foster Learning, Exploring, and Reflecting

Question 1

Accommodation

Answer 1

Changing one’s beliefs about the world and how it works in light of new experience.

Question 2

Appraisal structure

Answer 2

The set of appraisals that bring about an emotion.

Question 3

Appraisal theories

Answer 3

• Evaluations that relate what is happening in the environment to people’s values, goals, and beliefs.
• Appraisal theories of emotion contend that emotions are caused by patterns of appraisals, such as whether an event furthers or hinders a goal and whether an event can be coped with.

Question 4

Awe

Answer 4

• An emotion associated with profound, moving experiences.
• Awe comes about when people encounter an event that is vast (far from normal experience) but that can be accommodated in existing knowledge.

Question 5

Chills

Answer 5

A feeling of goosebumps, usually on the arms, scalp, and neck, that is often experienced during moments of awe.

Question 6

Confusion

Answer 6

An emotion associated with conflicting and contrary information, such as when people appraise an event as unfamiliar and as hard to understand.

Question 7

Coping potential

Answer 7

People’s beliefs about their ability to handle challenges.

Question 8

Facial expressions

Answer 8

Part of the expressive component of emotions, facial expressions of emotion communicate inner feelings to others.

Question 9

F​unctionalist theories of emotion

Answer 9

Theories of emotion that emphasize the adaptive role of an emotion in handling common problems throughout evolutionary history.

Question 10

Impasse-driven learning

Answer 10

An approach to instruction that motivates active learning by having learners work through perplexing barriers.

Question 11

Interest

Answer 11

An emotion associated with curiosity and intrigue, interest motivates engaging with new things and learning more about them.

Question 12

Intrinsically motivated learning

Answer 12

Learning that is “for its own sake”—such as learning motivated by curiosity and wonder—instead of learning to gain rewards or social approval.

Question 13

Knowledge emotion​s

Answer 13

A family of emotions associated with learning, reflecting, and exploring.

Question 14

O​penness to experience

Answer 14

One of the five major factors of personality, this trait is associated with higher curiosity, creativity, emotional breadth, and open-mindedness.

Question 15

Surprise

Answer 15

An emotion rooted in expectancy violation that orients people toward the unexpected event.

Question 16

Trait curiosity

Answer 16

Stable individual-differences in how easily and how often people become curious.