It can be defined as a person's ability to understand the meaning of emotions. Cognitive reappraisal is one method to regulate emotions effectively. Which of the following statements is true regarding the effects of moods and emotions on decision making?
- Sadness is the most negative, aversive emotion. failure. personal reflection. facilitates the cohesiveness of social groups. appears to be rumination. erodes social supports.
The campaign is getting launched publicly in the next week and Hastings will need to interact with the media and give sound bites on the issue. This is the first time she will be interacting with the press and she is experiencing emotions of anxiousness, nervousness, and stress.
Emotions are influenced by events, thoughts about those events, and physical arousal. Arousal helps determine the intensity of emotions.
Emotions are expressed nonverbally through body movements, physiological arousal, and facial expressions.
Culture shapes rules for displaying emotions. However, happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, disgust, contempt, and anger are expressed with similar facial expressions around the world.
Humans have a limited ability to predict what will make them happy and tend to believe moods will last longer than they actually do.
2) anger is the most passionate emotion - anger arises when people want to keep control of something that is theirs.
List three ways to apply principles of motivation and emotion to an intervention. 1) have an empirically validated theory to explain motivational phenomenon. 2) be able to predict the rise and fall of motivational and emotional states. 3) find workable solutions to real-world motivational and emotional problems.
1) body reactions were actually part of the body's fight or flight response and did not vary from one emotion to the next. 2) the emotional experience was quicker than the physiological reaction.
Having the benefit of a tutor or coach who models how to do things such as setting goals, developing strategies, formulating implementation intention, monitoring performance, and evaluating how well one is doing is a description of: self-regulation. The experience of cognitive dissonance is psychologically aversive.
Describe the Attribution Theory of Emotion. - an attribution is the reason teh person uses to explain an important life outcome. - the attribution roots to the seven emotions. - if outcome positive: primary appraisal is happiness and secondary appraisal could be pride, gratitude, or hope.
1) the unconscious. - much of mental life is unconscious. 2) psychodynamics. - mental processes operate in parallel with one another. 3) ego development (building the self) - healthy development involves moving from an immature socially dependent personality to one that is more mature and interdependent with others.
When sad, a person is motivated to take the action necessary to overcome or reverse the sense of failure or separation just experienced.