Emotion

Question 1

What is the definition of emotion?

Answer 1

The change in feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence your behaviour

Question 2

What are the 3 components of emotion?

Answer 2

1. Physiological changes
2. Subjective feelings
3. Associated behaviour

Question 3

What does physiological change refer to?

Answer 3

Refers to the way your body is altered during a certain emotion. For example, during love, butterflies in stomach, sweating palms when nervous.
Refers to arousal - increase in activity in the body that prepares us for action

Question 4

What are subjective feelings?

Answer 4

Different people have a different perspective on emotions
e.g. love for some is happy whereas love for others is scary

Question 5

What are associated behaviours?

Answer 5

The way you react to physiological changes and subjective feelings e.g. someone in love that likes love may hold hands

Question 6

Two factor theory

Answer 6

Environment + physiological reaction + cognitive label = emotion
Emotions can have the same symptoms - it is only the label that differentiates them.

Question 7

What is cognitive appraisal based on?

Answer 7

It’s how someone deals with a situation based off beliefs, goals and personal circumstances
e.g. a single father with stress may cause the daughter to have stress to as the daughter has appraised the situation and determined how capable they are based off their beliefs that were formed by her father

Question 8

What part of the brain is responsible for cognitive secondary appraisal?

Answer 8

Prefrontal cortex

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Basic survival - fight flight freeze

Question 10

7 Primal emotions

Answer 10

1. Seeking
2. Rage
3. Fear
4. Lust
5. Love
6. Panic
7. Play

Question 11

How are primal emotions linked to situations?

Answer 11

When we are in an unfamiliar situation, our primal emotions are activated instead.

Question 12

3 main areas of subjective wellbeing

Answer 12

1. Domains of likes (school, work, friends, family)
2. Global judgement (general feeling about their lives)
3. Ongoing feelings (wha’ts going on with them)

Question 13

According to the model of subjective wellbeing, what 2 ways enable us to measure happiness?

Answer 13

1. Life satisfaction
2. Affective balance (ability to stay calm during stressful situations)

Question 14

Affective balance

Answer 14

Moods, emotions and feelings that a person experiences

Question 15

What is combined in affective balance?

Answer 15

Positive and negative emotions

Question 16

2 Perspectives of wellbeing

Answer 16

1. Top-down perspective
2. Bottom-up perspective

Question 17

Top-down perspective

Answer 17

View life in one way e.g. a positive outlook towards all aspects of life

Question 18

Bottom-up perspective

Answer 18

looks at how beliefs, perceptions and experiences determine happiness level

Question 19

6 areas that contribute to psychological wellbeing

Answer 19

1. Autonomy
2. Environmental mastery - able to direct our own lives
3. Personal growth
4. Positive relations with others
5. Purpose in life
6. Self-acceptance

Question 20

What does the broaden and build theory focus on?

Answer 20

focuses on how positive and negative emotions cause optimal wellbeing

Question 21

What does the ‘broaden’ in broaden and build refer to

Answer 21

When you broaden your focus so you experience a greater array of thoughts, and actions. This then allows you to build in life

Question 22

What does the ‘build’ refer to in broaden and build

Answer 22

From a broadened mind, you are able to build new experiences and develop
E.g. when the thought of play comes into your mind, you are able to build on social skills, allowing you to be able to socialise when you get older