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ED 213 Ch. 8
Ch. 8 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emotional competence | the ability to regulate your own emotions, and read others’ emotions, so that you emerge from an emotional event having accomplished your goals. |
| Emotion | a subjective reaction to an important event, involving physiological or observable behavioral change. |
| Appraisal | the meaning given to an event. |
| Basic emotions | universal, innate emotions appearing in the first months of life (interest, joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear). |
| Social emotions | complex emotions that emerge later than basic emotions (shame, embarrassment, guilt, pride, and envy). Also called “self-conscious” or “moral” emotions. |
| Emotional intelligence | the ability to use emotions to guide thinking and to think intelligently about emotions. Sometimes defined more broadly to mean emotional competence. |
| Emotion regulation | the capacity to control the intensity and duration of emotions. |
| Coping strategies | deliberate attempts to change thought of behavior to try to manage strong emotions. They are usually divided into problem-focused or emotion-focused strategies. |
| Problem-focused coping strategies | action-oriented strategies that involve trying to change the situation. |
| Emotion-focused coping strategies | strategies that involve trying to change emotions, such as changing one’s thoughts about the situation or seeking comfort from others. |
| Emotional dissemblance | altering the expression of felt emotion by expressing no emotion or expressing a different emotion. |
| Underregulated learners | experience chronic negative emotions, or rapidly change from one extreme emotion to another. |
| Negativity emotionality | is a temperament trait. Individual difference in this trait appear in the first months of life and remain somewhat stable. |
| Externalizing disorders | emotional disorders based on anger, characterized by aggression and other antisocial behaviors. |
| Internalizing disorders | emotional disorders based on sadness or anxiety, characterized by withdrawal. |
| Depression | a common internalizing disorder in which feelings of sadness are severe for at least 2 weeks or milder but chronic. |
| Anxiety disorder | a common internalizing disorder in which the child feels worried about future threats, or threats to the sense of self. |
| Test anxiety | a dispositional proneness toward anxiety in test situations that interferes with performance. |
| Math anxiety | a dispositional proneness toward anxiety at the prospect of doing math or taking a math test. |
| Acculturation | the long-term process of adapting to a new culture. |
| Affective perspective-taking | perceiving the emotions of another person. |
| Empathy | an emotional state similar to what another person is feeling that results from perceiving the other’s emotions. |
| Sympathy | an emotional response that consists of feeling concern for a distressed other. |
| Personal distress | a self-focused, aversive emotional reaction to someone else’s negative emotion. |
| Empathic distress | a self- and other-focused experience of taking on a friend’s distress and experiencing it as one’s own. |
| Emotion contagion | the emotions of one person, through facial, vocal, or gestural cues, generate a similar emotion in another person. |
| Social referencing | children read another’s emotional expression to determine how they should respond in an ambiguous situation. |
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