Emotions Flashcards

(34 cards)

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Admiration

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Respect and warm approval

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Adoration

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Deep love and respect

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Aesthetic appreciation

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The admiration of beauty; valuing fine arts, literature, music, and the arts

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Amusement

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The state or experience of finding something funny

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Anxiety

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Anxiety encompasses feelings of worry, nervousness, or dread. Although unpleasant, occasional bouts of anxiety are natural and sometimes even productive: By signaling that something isn’t quite right, anxiety can help people both avoid danger and make important and meaningful changes.

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Awe

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A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear and wonder

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Awkwardness

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Causing difficulty, hard to do or deal with; causing or feeling embarrassment or inconvenienvce

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Boredom

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Feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one’s current activity.

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Calmness

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The state or quality of being free from agitation or strong emotion.

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Confusion

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Lack of understanding; uncertainty; the state of being unclear about something in one’s mind.

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Craving

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A powerful desire for something

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Disgust

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A feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval of something aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.

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Empathetic pain

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A specific subgroup of empathy that involves recognizing and understanding another person’s pain. Empathy is the mental ability that allows one person to understand another person’s mental and emotional state and how to effectively respond to that person.

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Entrancement

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A feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment.

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Envy

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Jealousy is a complex emotion that encompasses feelings ranging from fear of abandonment to rage and humiliation. It strikes people of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations, and is most typically aroused when a person perceives a threat to a valued relationship from a third party. The threat may be real or imagined.

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Excitement

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A feeling of great enthusiasm, eagerness.

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Fear

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A powerful emotion that plays an important role in survival. When you face fear, you go through the fight or flight response - muscles tense, your heart rate and respiration increase, your mind is more alert.
It is an emotional response to an immediate threat/anticipated threat.

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Horror

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An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust; induced by a perceived danger or threat.

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Interest

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The state of wanting to know or learn about someone or something.

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Joy

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A feeling of great pleasure or happiness.

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Nostalgia

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A sentimental longing or wistful affection to the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

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Romance

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A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.

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Sadness

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Transient emotional state characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood.

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Satisfaction

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The fulfillment of one’s wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this.

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Sexual desire
A desire for sexual intimacy.
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Sympathy
Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
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Triumph
A great victory or achievement.
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Feelings
The conscious experience of emotional reactions. They are sparked by emotion and shaped by personal experiences, beliefs, memories, and thoughts linked to that particular emotion. Feelings are the side product of your brain perceiving an emotion and assigning a certain meaning to it.
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Emotions
Lower level responses occurring in the subcortical regions of the brain and the neocortex. These responses create biochemical and electrical reactions in the body that alter its physical state - emotions are neurological reactions to emotional stimuli.
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Surprise
Quite brief, characterized by physiological startle responses following something unexpected.
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Anger
Characterized by feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others.
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Disgust
Sense of revulsion due to unpleasant task, sight, smell, etc... Evolved as a reaction to foods that may be fatal.
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Happiness
Pleasant emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, and well-being.
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6 Major Emotions
Fear, sadness, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust