Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Star NewsPaper > Psy Exam 2 > Flashcards

Psy Exam 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Emotions:

A

Physiological state that connects our concerns/goals to events of the world

Gives priority and urgency telling us what to focus on and how to navigate our social world

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

crossing the road and almost being ran over

A

This shows Fear as the motivator from getting hit

There’s a concern for self-preservation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Multiple Componenets:

A

Three domains: thoughts, biology/brain, behavior

Behavior means you can absorb it

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Domains of Emotion:

A

Personality development
Judgment of self/others/world
Social behavior, communication, relationship

Morality
Mental well being

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Affect/Affective science:

A

Umbrella term for describing feelings’
Anything to do with feelings

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Emotions:

A

are brief/specific/and out in the world

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

mood

A

background/free-flowing

Waking up in a mood

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Emotional disorders:

A

Longer duration

Can cause impairment by interfering with life

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Personality traits:

A

Long term
example is being kind
It can last a lifetime

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Noneverbal behavior:

A

gestures we do with our body language to communicate or make more vivid

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Emblems:

A

Gestures that translate directly to a word or phrase

Peace, fuck you, Ok

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Regulators

A

Gestures that coordinate conversation

Regulates who we are talking to

Initiating the conversation and negotiating the turn talking

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Illustrators:

A

Gestures that accompany speech to enhance, make visual, or more vivid

EX Tap watch to emphasize “we need to go”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Self Adaptor

A

Random fidgeting behavior with no meaning

Releasing nervous energy
EX Twirling hair

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Principle of serviceable habits:

A

Human expressions derived from deep evolutionary time

behaviors from past species

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Principle of Anthisisis

A

Emotions that come from opposites
Emotions that mean the opposite thing but have opposite display

Ex: growing bigger when feeling pride or getting smaller when feeling shame

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Principle of nervous discharge

A

Release nervous energy

Random jitter that does not mean anything but is still nonverbal behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Elkam’s study of the universality of emotional expression

A

There are six universal emotions
Anger, fear, surprise, disgust, sadness, and joy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Decoding hypthesis:

A

Ppl from diff cultures interpret expression in same way

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Encoding hypothesis

A

Ppl from different cultures produce the same expression during the experience

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Deeoding:

A

interpret

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Decode:

A

To produce

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Parasympathetic:

A

Rest and digest

Decrease heart rate and blood pressure but increase digestion

Top of spinal chord

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Sympathetic

A

Fight or flight

Increases blood pressure and shuts down the digestive system

Located in the thoracic/lumbar or middle of the spine or below the neck

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Amygdala:

A

Small almond shape structure in the limbic system

Critical appraisal mechanism in emotion

Quickly computes the emotional significance of events

Stores emotional events/memory/conditioning

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Amygdala function

A

Input directly from visual and auditory systems via thalumus and cortex

27
Q

low road:

A

for fast action from stimulus straight to amygdala

28
Q

Sensory Cortext or High road:

A

where we can think about stimulus and we can relfect on it in the sensory complex

We can think abou the meaning/significance of an event

29
Q

Secondary Appraisals

A

Secondary conscious analysis of the meaning of an event

Gives rise to positive and negative emotion

Think about event and why it matters to me

Related to goal and relationship to event

30
Q

Different Conceptions of Secondary Appraisals

A

Different conceptions but main idea is that we process events and relate them to ourselves when we think about emotions

31
Q

Tertiary appraisal

A

sharing/expressing/communicating our emotions by talking, writing,teaching

Externalysing emotion

32
Q

Expressive writing

A

Writing in an uncensored way for 15 minutes

Expressive writing increases immune function, relieves depression, boosts grades, all by externalizing emotions

33
Q

Who benefits from expressive writting

A

Healthy and sick
Young and poor, old an rich, eurpopeeans, americans, asians

34
Q

Measuring subjective experience/phenomenology

A

Subjective but very real

rate pain using a number from 1 to 10

It’s not great but it does give an idea of how one feels

35
Q

Rationalize

A

Discrepancies lead to dissonance

36
Q

Cognitive dissonance

A

An uncomfortable mental state resulting from a contradiction resulting between two attitudes between an attitude and behavior

37
Q

Examples of cognitive dissonance:

A

Smoking:

Smoking can kill me

How to reduce dissonance
Quit smoking
Question the evidence
Call on alternative reasoning

38
Q

Postdecisional dissonance and example

A

Dissonance arises when a person holds positive attitudes about different options but has to choose between two choices.

An ex is choosing a college and then thinking positively about the one you choose and negative thoughts about the other school.

This happens automatically with minimal cognitive processing and happens with no warning

39
Q

Justifying effort and example

A

When someone is put through pain or torture to join a group and the group turns out to be boring, they will experience dissonance

They’ll deal with dissonance by making it feel more important than it really is

Example: joining a frat

40
Q

Self perception theory and example

A

Looking at behavior then analyising the attitude

If you eat six burgers you can infer that you were hungry

41
Q

Self esteem is a shape of dissonance

A

We want to see ourselve in a positive light

We want to feel about what we do or went through

42
Q

Affect/feeling

A

Feeling or how we feel about something or self

43
Q

State self-esteem

A

How i feel right now
immediate/momentary

Will shift according to situationbs

44
Q

Trait self-esteem

A

How do i typically feel about myself throughout situation

A kind of avareging

45
Q

Narcissism epidemic

A

Between 1979 and 2006 there was a rise in narcissism among college students

46
Q

What caused narcissism

A

Programs aimed at improving self esteem

Such as songs about how great you are

Grading practices where everyone gets an A

Making ppl feel extraordinarily capable even when not deserved

Social media

This is controversial bc not everyone agrees

47
Q

Sociometer theory

A

Leary and colleagues’ findings

Self Esteem: is a mechanism for monitoring the likelihood of social exclusion

48
Q

Sociometer

A

An internal monitor of social acceptance or rejection

When a person has on low probability of rejection, they will have higher self-esteem

When a person is high on probability of rejection they will experience low self esteem

49
Q

Self Esteem and delinquency/crime

A

Feeling unaccepteed leeads to higher chances of crime

association/deliquent behavior

Joing a gang can raise self-esteem

50
Q

Mental health condition mechanisms

A

ostracism/abandonment/rejection can cause emotional and behavior problems
A sociometer aspect

51
Q

Terror management theory

A

Human cognittive capacities to know we will die

Our fear of death drive social behavior

Creates a sense of fear and terror

People’s beliefs need to be strengthened or protected when reminded of death

52
Q

Example of terror management theory

A

Christians have normal attitude towards jews until reminded of death and then they become more hostile

53
Q

Mortality Salience:

A

Led to more positive evaluations of the ingroup member

Led to more negative evaluations of outsid regroup member

54
Q

Terror management and social identity

A

Through identification with social groups the person can feel like they will live on forever

The group becomes an immortal entity

55
Q

Examples of terror management and social identity:

A

Donating to a school
Bearing children
Achirevment

56
Q

Mimicry study

A

In a study a person mimics everything a test subject does and by end of study the subject likes the other person

57
Q

Informational influence

A

Influence of other ppl results form taking their comments/actions as source of info about what is

correct/propper/effective

58
Q

Auto kinetic solution

A

Using others for information

The sense that a stationary point of light in a darkened room is moving
In a test, one person said light was moving and they estimated how much it was moving, and as ppl gave estimates, they all eventually agreed on one speed creating a group norm

59
Q

Normative influence

A

Doing what others think/do so we won’t be rejected/ostracized

The need to belong/be approved will make ppl conform

60
Q

Asch Study

A

A test of two ppl giving wrong answer and the subject eventually ends up conforming with them
¾ of participants conform to the wrong answers

61
Q

Obedience

A

When a person follows the orders of a person of authority

62
Q

The Milgram experiment

A

An experiment that proved that ppl would do horrible things when instructed to do so by an authority figure

Individuals who are concerned about what others think of them are more prone to be obedient

Obedience deceereases with greater distance from authority

Ordered by authority to shock ppl doing test eventually leading to lethal charge

63
Q

Stanford prison experiment

A

The students transformed into the sosocial roles they were playing

Students were put into roles of prisoner and officer and studets started acting like their role

This shows that situations can be powerful

Humans seem to innate tendecncie to comply with social influence

Star NewsPaper (2 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions