Week 1 HC 2

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

Emotions are whole-body phenomena with connections between different processes; physiological, cognitive, behavioral

Question 2

What is emotion regulation?

Answer 2

shaping which emotions one has, when one has them, and how one experiences or expresses these emotions

Question 3

What are the five emotion regulation strategies?

Answer 3

1. Situation selection
2. Situation modification
3. Attentional deployment
4. Cognitive change
5. Response modulation

Question 4

What is situation modification and how does it start?

Answer 4

Moving away from something scary. Only starts with an psychologically relevant situation (fe, you are reading a book on your own and someone enters the room, you sit straight, do your hair etc)

Question 5

What is attentional deployment?

Answer 5

Focusing attention, attention regulation. Using your attention to regulate up or down emotions. FE distraction, to make a situation less emotionally charged. Children do this by looking away, for adults it’s focusing on other things.

Question 6

What is response modulation?

Answer 6

Dampen or enlarge your emotions to a situation

Changing the emotional reaction, like relaxing, self-soothing behaviors
Suppression of certain emotions, via ‘display rules’ -> role of culture

Question 7

What entails he functionalist approach to emotional development?

Answer 7

Signal/commute disgust, fear, anger and sadness

Emotions are about our own appreciation of how the event relates to our personal goals (security, food) -> lecture 5

Question 8

What entails the differentiation approach to emotional development?

Answer 8

At birth; contentment, interest and distress
After 6 months; 6 basic emotions (5+ surprised)
After 18 months; more complex emotions possible

Question 9

What are the components of emotion?

Answer 9

fysiology: arousal
cognition; inferences/interpret
behavior; crying, looking

Question 10

What is the negativity bias?

Answer 10

Higher susceptibility to negative emotions

Question 11

Why is there a negativity bias?

Answer 11

larger cost to ignore or misinterpret negative emotions

Question 12

What are complex emotions?

Answer 12

Thousands of possible combinations of basic emotions

Self-conscious emotions; guilt, shame, embarrassment, pride

Question 13

What are the six basic emotions?

Answer 13

1. Joy
2. Sadness
3. Surprise
4. Anger
5. Fear
6. Disgust

Question 14

What are machiavellian emotions?

Answer 14

End justifies the means
Emotion meant to influence others and not simply to reflect an internal state
Often considered cold, calculation, functional
Can also be seducing, jealous, ‘happy’

Question 15

What is imitation?

Answer 15

making a similar facial expression

Question 16

What is contagion?

Answer 16

someone feels a particular emotion and you pick it up and feel the same way