Midterm Flashcards
Psychobiography and its limits
Paranoia,
Narcisism - not capable of empathy. Seek leadership roles in seeking power. Being carismatic. In times of dificulties people are more attracted to narcisists.
Historical records
Defense mechanisms
defending the ego Repression - ignore memories Projection - project your bad characteristics on other people rationalism - justifying behavior Denial. denial of reality
Affective Intelligence Theory
reject that we have think before we feel
two systems:
the disposition
Information that is routine
evaluating incoming information according to the emotions that a particual stimuli elicits:
and the surveillance
deals with new information and unexpected
dominated emotion is anxiety
more attention, more reasoned thought
Cognitive Consistency Theory
act according to our beliefs, cognitive dissonance - two beliefs that don’t match
balancing, justifying, dismissing
cannot predict
Dispositionist vs. Situationist v Systemic
Dispositionist - actions because of who you are
situationist- beacuse of the situation your in.
System 1 vs System 2 thinking
system 1 is more reflex, straight, guts, fast, automatic
system 2 compares and think in more steps, analytic, reaosining, rational, heuristics checks, system 1
Fundamental Attribution Error (Correspondence Bias)
when we make a mistake its caused by the situation, when someone else makes a mistake it is on their carachter.
empathy activates our understanding for the others situation
Major value differences between liberals and conservatives
Liberals- equality, freedom to live your life as you like,
last - order rules social hierarchy, more control over the economy
Conservatives- Order- traditional hierarchys, regulations and limits. Freedom from the government. Equality last
free market principles,more control over social rights.
Motivated Reasoning
Before something happen, have an idea of the outcome, in making a desicion we use our logic to get to the desired outcome.
OCEAN traits (what they are, how they are measured, how they correlate with ideology) O
O- openness - imagination, artistic interests, depth of emotions, willingness to experience , liberal active in workplace ,
intellectual curious, creative aware of their feelings, quick to understand things.
OCEAN traits (what they are, how they are measured, how they correlate with ideology)
C
C- Conscientiousness . work ethic, sense of competence, self- disciplin, control of regulation, planned behaviour, order, schedule
OCEAN traits (what they are, how they are measured, how they correlate with ideology)
E
E- extroversion, not good at the task, interact with people, full of energy, enthustiastic
OCEAN traits (what they are, how they are measured, how they correlate with ideology)
A
A- Agreeableness, not proactive, more democratic, value of getting along, considerate, helpful, compromising, social harmony, suspious.
OCEAN traits (what they are, how they are measured, how they correlate with ideology)
N
Natural reactions- anxiety, sensitivity to stress, moodiness, self-consionsness , not good for the work place.
anger, depression, emotional instability, low tolerans for stress, pessimistic
Hot and cold cognition
Hot emotions are those that are experienced with a high level of arousal and a ‘hot’ state is related to high levels of interest, emotion or activity.
One reason that emotions are called hot is that we actually feel hotter as adrenaline is released and blood flows to muscles making us feel more energetic. The skin may also redden, contributing to both the feeling and appearance of a higher temperature.
In general, we feel happier when we are ‘warmer’ than when we are ‘colder’, though being hot all the time can be exhausting so we spend much of our time in a ‘warm’ place where we are motivated enough to do what we need to do without burning out.
If we think of times when we were happiest, there is a good chance it was in a hotter state, perhaps when we were passionate about something, challenging ourselves physically or engaged in intense discovery. It is not surprising that we frequently seek a hotter state and that the search for arousal is a core need.
Cold emotions are those that are experienced with a low level of arousal. They may well be more cognitive in experience then emotional. In a cold state we may be calm and in control of ourselves. We may also bored, flat and lethargic.
When people display cold emotions they may be still be experiencing them as hot, but do not want others to know this. This may be due to a desire to deceive or it may be based on a social need not to burden others with one’s own strength of feelings.
Psychopaths have been described as having ‘cold empathy’ in the way that they recognize emotions in others but do not experience the normal feelings of Empathy. They may well be skilled at appearing empathetic, but this is just a sham to fit it or manipulate others.
