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| physiological and experiential responses that aid adaptation and challenges faced during life events |
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they are a first response system that coordinate physiological, psychological, social and behavioral responses
also good for social communication |
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| What are "purposive emotions"? |
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| generate subjective feelings, arouse body into action, generate motivational states |
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| What are the five basic components of emotion? |
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Environment ->
Emotional Processing (primary appraisal) ->
Automatic Processing (if-then) ->
Symbolic Processing (conscious/purposeful) ->
Behavior |
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| What are the four dimensions of emotion? |
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- Subjective
- Motivational
- Biological
- Social |
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| What are subjective emotions? |
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Feelings and cognitions
- fear, anxiety, happiness |
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| What are biological emotions? |
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physiological activation and motor responses
- beh inhibtion system
- right prefrontal lobe activation
- sympathetic nervous system |
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| What are motivational emotions? |
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create goal-directed motivational states and activate behavior program
- what you do, new goals |
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| What are social emotions? |
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| facial, postural, vocal signs which communicate quality and intensity of emotion |
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| What two ways do emotions and motivations relate? |
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- Emotions act as motives which energize behavior
- Emotions act as feedback for adaptation, base how you act on positive vs. negative emotions |
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| What two processes react in adaptive ways to significant life events? |
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| What evidence is there for the biological influence one emotions? |
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- emotions processed in primitive brain systems such as limbic
- induced by noncognitive procedures
- experienced by newborns and nonhumans |
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| What evidence is there for the cognitive influence on emotions? |
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- emotion depends on personal relevance (no meaning, no emotion)
- attributions influence emotion |
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| What are the two systems of emotion? |
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- Implicit/Impuslive
- Explicit/Reflective |
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| What are the characteristics of the implicit system? |
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- innate, biological
- primitive (midbrain)
- unconcious
- few congnitive resources
- fast acting
- slow learning
Involves automatic and emotional processing |
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| What are the characteristics of the explicit system? |
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- experience based
- learned
- frontal cortex
- conscious
- high cognitive resources
- slow acting
- fast learning
uses symbolic processing |
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| How many primary emotions exist? |
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| What are primary emotions? |
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- implicit system
- primary appraisal
- biological |
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| What are secondary emotions? |
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- cognitive
- explicit system
- too many to count |
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- adaptive/survival purposes
- coping functions
- cognitive functions
- organizing behavior
- social communication of feelings, being/end interactions
- impact performance
- impact motivation |
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| everyday, low level, general state of feeling good. does not influence attention or behavior. |
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| What distinguishes emotion from mood? |
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- specific target and types
- short duration
- potent
- conscious |
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| What distinguishes mood from emotion? |
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- no target
- positive or negative valence
- long duration
- diffuse
- outside or bordering awareness |
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