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Psych test UMW ch11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| primary emotions | emotions everyone has that you can recognize every where |
| secondary emotions | more subtle emotions, ex. Grief, embarrassment, or jealousy |
| seven basic facial expressions according to Ekman | anger, fear, surprise, happiness, sadness, disgust, contempt |
| facial feedback | face interprets emotion before the person does |
| left frontal lobes | positive or approach emotions |
| right frontal lobe | negative or avoidance emotions, disgust |
| mirror neurons | process other people’s emotions, empathy |
| mood contagion | the spreading of an emotion from one person to another |
| polygraph | measures heartbeat and sweat |
| How often do polygraphs detect false postives | people may be nervous 40% |
| How often do polygraphs detect false negatives | people are really good at concealing emotions %15 |
| Microexpressions | people making slight movements, that give them away |
| Who is happier bronze or silver | bronze |
| display rules | what you are allowed to express in society |
| General Adaption Syndrome | developed by Seyl, says there are 3 different stages of stress |
| alarm phase | first stage, realize something stressful is happening |
| resistance phase | second stage, coping and dealing with stress, heart rate up |
| exhaustion phase | stops HPA (hypothalamus, pituitary,adrenal) axis of body that reacts to stress |
| daily hassles | things that stress you out on a daily basis, school |
| larger sources of stress | some kind of social loss, work stress, poverty, noise |
| optimism | positive thinking, better for health |
| pessimism | negative thinking |
| realistic optimism | behaving in a way and thinking you can do better afterwards |
| defensive pessimism | people convince a worse outcome to decrease anxiety |
| locus of control | said by Rotter who is controlling fate |
| internal locus of control | belief system abou the world that you control a fate |
| external locus of control | someone else is controlling your own world (God, people, nature) |
| criticism locus ofcontrol | realized less powerful groups have less control over fate |
| primary control | changing world by your own actions, you can change the world |
| secondary control | changing reactions to events, good that somethings are ot of your control |
| Type A personality | perfectionist, rigid, driven, motivated, time pressure, antagonist, hostility linked to heart disease |
| Type D personality | now considered worst personality, distressed, hostile, angry, and isolated |
| relationship between depression and heart disease | depressed people 4x more likely than normal |
| positive emotions | feeling happy and good, looked at nun’s entrance essays to see number of positive words, lived usually 10 years longer |
| benefits of confession | talking about or writing your problems, distresses, college students less stressed when keeping diary |
| benefits of forgiveness | holding grudges make you continuously stressed |
| emotion focused coping | concentrates on the emotions the problem has caused, (after a tragedy people need to talk about their feelings in order to deal) |
| problem focused coping | solving the problem itself whether pressing time sensitive decision or on going |
| reappraisal | changing your thinking about a stressor, turning anger into sympathy (job lost was sad, but you were a fraid to quit so now you’re free |
| social comparison | comparing ourselves to other people |
| upward social comparison | comparing to people better than self |
| downward social comparison | comparing to people worse off than self, better for you |
| importance of social connection on health and longetivity | people who are more social tend to live longer |
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lfalkens
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