Emotion Defintion Problem correct answer: There is not one. - It is too hard to define because of the broad range of skills
Emotion correct answer: A
... [Show More] complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements, by which an individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event.
Emotions are mixed with... correct answer: bodily arousal (heart starts racing)
expressive behavior (You start to run)
conscious experience ("I'm running because they are chasing me)
feelings (Fear, afraid)
Emotion Distinction correct answer: It is different from mood, feelings, and affect.
Feelings correct answer: The subjective experience associated with emotion.
Mood correct answer: An emotional state that is general and expanded over period of time.
Affect correct answer: Encompasses feelings and moss and categories of emotions
(Positive or negative Affect)
Emotions Involve... correct answer: Expressive Displays
Physiological Responses
Cognitive Appraisals
Action Tendency correct answer: motivation to behave in certain ways
Emotions Influence... correct answer: Memory, reasoning, problem-solving, attention, perception.
Emotions and Reinforcement correct answer: Emotions reinforce and shape our behaviors
Emotions Regulate... correct answer: Social Interaction
Emotions allow us to... correct answer: Empathize with Others
Communicate Nonverbally
Respond to our Environment
Three Functions of Emotion correct answer: Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Social/Communal
Intrapersonal Function of Emotion correct answer: Describes the roles that emotions play within each of us individually.
Interpersonal Function of Emotion correct answer: Describes the meanings of emotions in our relationships with others.
Social/Cultural Function of Emotion correct answer: Describes the roles and meanings that emotions have regarding the maintenance of social order within a society.
Physiological Theories of Emotion correct answer: Emotions are the result of physical changes in the body.
Neurological Theories of Emotion correct answer: Propose that activity within the brain leads to emotional responses
Cognitive Theories of Emotion correct answer: Argue that thoughts and other mental activity play an essential ole in forming emotions
James-Lange Theory of Emotion correct answer: theory in which a physiological reaction leads to the labeling of an emotion; Physiological Theory
The physiological response leads to emotion
Physiological is first; Emotion is second
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion correct answer: Stimulating events trigger feelings and physical reactions that occur at the same time.
Physiological and emotion are at the same time.
Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion: correct answer: we determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal, then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal
(Cognitive Theory)
Cognitive Appraisal Theory correct answer: theory of emotion which theorizes that individuals decide on an appropriate emotion following the event
Stimulus -> thought about emotion -> physiological response and emotion
Thought comes first, Physiological comes second.
Richard Lazarus correct answer: developed the cognitive appraisal theory
Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion correct answer: Facial movement influences ones emotional experience
(If you smile, you'll be happier)
James and Darwin helped birth this idea
Evolutionary Theory of Emotion correct answer [Show Less]