PSY2001 SEMESTER 2 - WEEK 4 Flashcards
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define emotions
short-lived complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioural, physiological elements, by which an individual attempts to deal with personally significant matter/event
name 3 components for emotions
experiential, behavioural, physiological
whats experiential component in emotions
affective component, how someone feeling
whats behavioural component in emotions
facial expressions, body language, fight/flight
whats physiological component in emotions
system responses, such as automatic, neuroendocrine that attempts to support behaviours like running
outline 4 phases of modal model of emotion
situation, attention, appraisal, response
summarise situation phase of modal model of emotion
situation can be real/imagined
summarise attention phase of modal model of emotion
are direct toward emotional situation
summarise sappraisal phase of modal model of emotion
evaluated/interpreted, either conscious/unconsciously in terms of what mean in relation to individ goal
summarise response phase of modal model of emotion
create emot response which leads to changes in experiential, behavioural, physiological response systems
Trampe (2015) studied emotions in our daily life, and how common/often do we experience diff emotion
experience least 1 emot 90% of time, pos emot 2.5x more than neg
frequently mixed emot, of joy/love and anxiety
define experience sampling
ppts prompted at diff point during day to report on their current thoughts, feelings, behaviours- capture experience in natural contexts
name 4 function of emotion
prepare body for action
influences thought process
motivate future behaviours
influence interpersonal rels
define emotion regulation
processes aimed at influencing which emotions someone has, when they have them, and how they experience and express them
what does emotion regulations invovles
monitoring, evaluating, modifying diff aspect of emotion such as initiation, duration, magnitude + freq
give a example when down-regulating negative emotion
trying to calm down when angry
give a example when down-regulating positive emotion
trying not to smile at a funeral
give a example when up-regulating negative emotion
psyche yourself up for performance
give a example when up-regulating positive emotion
sharing good news with friends
is maintaining our current emotional states a motivated process and effortful?
may want to maintain current emotional state, which is motivated process (aimed to achieve goals), can be effortful and occur explicitly or can be automatic, implicit
summarise taxonomy of motives - why we want emotional regulation
2 motives for emotion regulations-
hedonic and instrumental
hedonic split into prohedonic, contrahedonic
instrumental split into performance, epistemic, social, eudaimonic
define hedonic motives
motivation to maximise pleasure and minimise pain
name/explain 2 types of hedonic motives in taxonomy of motives (emotion regulations)
pro-hedonic - to feel pleasure
contra-hedonic - to feel pain
may want to feel pos emotion, avoid unpleas, help down-regulate neg emot, up-regulate pos
name 4 types of instrumental motives in taxonomy of motives (emotion regulations)
performance, epistemic, social, eudiamonic