Emotions 1

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define an emotion
coordinated, motivated states with various components
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what are the 3 components
physiological, behavioural and cognitive
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what is physiological arousal
internal changes involving automatic nervous system and hormones
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what type of behaviours
expressive
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what two cognitions
subjective feeling and knowing why you feel this way
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what are 3 different levels of emotions
emotion, mood, affect
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describe an emotion in 3 ways
more intense, shorter lasting, specific feeling about something
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describe a mood in 4 ways
less intense, longer lasting, more general, not clearly linked to event or cause
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describe affect
generic term, often means feeling good or bad
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what perspective attempts to explain why we have emotions
evolutionary
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what does the evolutionary perspective say emotions are
emotions to help us solve problems
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what about if emotions do not have an obvious evolutionary adapative
still important
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give an example
positive emotions encourages broadening and building
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emotions _____ us, not vice versa
control
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we recognise what
that emotions influence cognition
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but we still what
underestimate how much they influence
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what is this called
the hot-cold empathy gap
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explain this
when feeling one emotion, we cant predict very well how we will feel when we nolonger feel that emotion
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we think of ourselves as what
rational beings
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therefore we hate the idea of what
thinking emotions influenced our behaviours
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what is a study that shows this
*****-hose study
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what did the experimenters do
laid out 4 tights, and asked p to pick out which ones are best and why
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which one did they tend to pick
the ones on the right
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however they were all what
identical
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why might they have done this
we prefer things on our dominant side
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none of the participants identified what
position as a reason
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why might we hate the idea of emotions to influence us
we associate emotions with irrationality
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so people tend to divide what
emotions and logic
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but...
we are always in some kind of emotional state
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emotions influence our ______, _______ and ________
judgements, decision making, memory
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give 2 examples of how emotion effects memory
mood congruent recall, state-dependent memory
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what is mood congruent recall
we are more likely to retrieve memories consistent with current mood, more likely to retrieve memories how you felt when you were encoded
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what is state dependent memory
more likelywe are better at retrieve memories when you feel how you felt when you were encoded
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in general we are better at recalling what
emotional memories
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what theory explains for this
network theory/priming
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explain this
bad mood leads to activation of associations, this makes it more available
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we often make what type of biased judgement
self-serving
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apart from who
depressed people
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what is this called
depressive realism
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well maybe theyre just depressed
no they show positive bias to other people
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what is a famous study about how emotions influence judgements we make about other people
bridge experiment
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what was the IV
low bridge or high bridge
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what did the high bridge cause
physiological arousal
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what gender was the experiment
female
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what gender was the participant
male
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what did he experimenter say
call me
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what was the dv
if they called the experimenter
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why might this be
misattributed the high physiological arousal by talking to the experimenter
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peoples moods are influenced by the what
the weather
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this effects peoples judgements, give evidence for this
uni admissions made decisions about applicants differently on cloudy and sunnys
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when sunny they preffered
non academic
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when cloudy they preffered
academic
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people are more _______ with their lives if its sunny
satisfied
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apart from when
they ask about the weather first
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what model accounts for this
feelings as information
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this says we say what when we make a decision
how do i feel about this
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what is evidence for this
students that felt anxious, you estimate random bad things as more probable
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emotions also influences decisions about ___
sex
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an experiment was testing what
hot-cold empathy gap
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what specifically about sex
safe sex
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they asked them about what
risky sexual behaviour
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give an example
likelihood of spiking someones drink
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they asked them in what two different states
cold and hot
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when they were aroused ...
they were more likely to engage in unsafe and risky sexual behaviour
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what are the implications of this
make as many decisions as possible when in cold state
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what is an example
put condom in wallet before
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so all of the evidence suggests what
we would make more rational decisions without emotions
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what evidence disputes this
people with no emotions, brain damage, do not make better decisions
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what area impairs emotions
ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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what does this impair
ability to make decisions and learn from mistakes
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what error is this
deycart error
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what is this error
you think your mind and body are seperate
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how does brain damage evidence show this is wrong
when body is damaged, mind is effected
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emotions may have _____ on current behaviour but _____ on future emotions
harmful effects, positive effects
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baumesiter says that emotions helpful in what way
indirect
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emotions may have _____ on current behaviour but _____ on future emotions
harmful effects, positive effects
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baumesiter says that emotions helpful in what way
indirect
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