Module 42 - Experienced Emotion

Question 1

How many emotions do we experience/feel?

Answer 1

10 (some are combination of the 10)

• joy
• interest-excitement
• surprise
• sadness
• anger
• disgust
• contempt
• fear
• shame
• guilt

Question 2

Emotion can be viewed as 2 dimensions

Answer 2

pleasant-unpleasant

low arousal - high arousal

Question 3

3 Investigated Emotions

Answer 3

Happiness
Anger
Fear

Question 4

Fear

Answer 4

Highly adaptive emotion, but if out of control can be deadly

Question 5

Origins of Fear

Answer 5

• some fears are innate
• most fears we learn
  1. classical conditioning
  2. observational
  3. even fear we think are innate

Question 6

Biology of Fear (what body parts and the role)

Answer 6

• amgdala plays major role in learned fear responses

- damage to amgdala; blocks conditioned fear responses and other learned fear responses

Question 7

Anger

Answer 7

• can be good or bad
• mostly bad, adds injury to injury that caused it
• gives us courage or makes us mad

Question 8

What makes us Angry?

Answer 8

• when we are wrong or perceive we were

- frustration, when goals are blocked (traffic lights, bad weather)

Question 9

Anger Management (How to get rid of it)

Answer 9

• talk to someone or journal
• talk yourself out of it
• take it out on something
• count to 10

Question 10

Catharsis (venting)

Answer 10

• idea is to get anger out, leads to emotional release
• don’t always work
• venting causes more anger

Question 11

Best ways to handle anger

Answer 11

1. wait
2. learn not to respond to every little annoyance
3. do not ruminate (think about it over and over)

Question 12

Forgiveness

Answer 12

When people imagine forgiving someone of a wrong, their negative feeling went down along with; blond pressure,, heart rate, perspiration and facial tension

Question 13

Happiness, what happy people do

Answer 13

1. perceive the world as safer
2. feel more confident
3. make decisions more easily
4. are more cooperative and tolerant
5. live healthier, energized and satisfied lives

Question 14

Altruism

Answer 14

people who are happy tend to help others

• manipulation of mood (happy) produces and increase altruistic behaviour
• doing good makes you feel good

Question 15

Study of well-being

Answer 15

self-perception of happiness or satisfaction with life

- positive emotions rise and decline in a run of a day and restart a fresh start the next day

Question 16

Wealth and Well-Being

Answer 16

• people in wealthy nations generally happier than those struggling in impoverished areas
• after certain amount of money, happiness does not appear to rise further “diminishing returns”

Question 17

Adaptation Level Phenomenon

Answer 17

we develop sense of neutral (normal)

Question 18

Comparision

Answer 18

• compare happiness to others
• no matter how high/success, others are the same or even higher
• to maintain happiness, best to remind ourselves of where we stand relative to those less fortunate

Question 19

Predictors of Happiness

Answer 19

• there are genetic influences

- besides the nature of happiness,there are individual differences among individuals