PSYC 140 EXAM 3
emotion vs moods - answer short-lived - only seconds or minutes
longer lasting - hours , days
Fredrickson’s broaden and build theory - answer positive emotions encourage
behaviors that are exploratory and broaden awareness.
3 characteristics of emotion - answer brief, specific, functional
william james theory of emotions - answer witnessing an external stimulus leads to a
physiological response - emotional reactoin depends on how you interpret those
physical reactions
schater & singer's two factory theory - answer
suspension bridge study - answerstudy done to prove misattribution of arousal -
misattributed sexual arousal with arousal from fear
affective forecasting - answerwe overestimate how positive and negative we will feel in
response to good or bad events
focalism - answeridea that we tend to focus on that one specific negative experience
and overlook how life will move in
immune neglect - answerjust like our physical immune system, we develop ways to
cope and feel better
5 sources of happiness - answermoney
relationships
freedom
emotional expression
practice
stereotypres - answerovergeneralized beliefs about the traits and attributes of members
of a particular group
sources of strereotypes - answernatural categorization
outgroup homogeneity effect
social role theory
natural categorization - answeradaptive to notice us vs them
emotion vs moods - answer short-lived - only seconds or minutes
longer lasting - hours , days
Fredrickson’s broaden and build theory - answer positive emotions encourage
behaviors that are exploratory and broaden awareness.
3 characteristics of emotion - answer brief, specific, functional
william james theory of emotions - answer witnessing an external stimulus leads to a
physiological response - emotional reactoin depends on how you interpret those
physical reactions
schater & singer's two factory theory - answer
suspension bridge study - answerstudy done to prove misattribution of arousal -
misattributed sexual arousal with arousal from fear
affective forecasting - answerwe overestimate how positive and negative we will feel in
response to good or bad events
focalism - answeridea that we tend to focus on that one specific negative experience
and overlook how life will move in
immune neglect - answerjust like our physical immune system, we develop ways to
cope and feel better
5 sources of happiness - answermoney
relationships
freedom
emotional expression
practice
stereotypres - answerovergeneralized beliefs about the traits and attributes of members
of a particular group
sources of strereotypes - answernatural categorization
outgroup homogeneity effect
social role theory
natural categorization - answeradaptive to notice us vs them
