Specific Emotions 1
How does fear organize us?
Fear organizes our responses to threats to our life, health, or well-being. It focuses us on escape from danger.
How does love organize us?
Love organizes our responses related to reproduction and survival. It focuses us on union with and attachment to others.
True or False: Emotions help us survive
True
Name a "distancing" emotion
fear, shame, anger, disgust
How many colors are there in a rainbow?
7
How does anger organize us?
Anger organizes our responses to the blocking of important goals or activities or to an imminent attack on the self or to important others. It focuses us on self-defense, mastery, and control.
How does happiness organize us?
Happiness organizes our responses to optimal functioning of ourselves, others we care about,
or the social group we are part of. It focuses us on continuing activities that enhance pleasure and personal and social value.
Emotions help use communicate with __ and __.
ourselves and others
Name a "connecting" emotion
Sadness, love, happiness
What solar system is earth in?
The Milky Way
How does sadness organize us?
Sadness organizes our responses to losses of someone or something important, and to goals lost or not attained. It focuses us on what is valued and the pursuit of goals, as well as on communicating to others that we need help.
How does shame organize us?
Shame organizes responses related to personal characteristics or our own behaviors that are
dishonoring or sanctioned by our own community. It focuses us on hiding transgressions and, if these are already public, engaging in appeasement-related behaviors.
True or False: Some emotions are good, while some are bad.
False: we may have an effective or ineffective response to emotions, or experience emotions as painful or pleasant, but emotions themselves are neither good or bad.
What is a difference between how shame and guilt organize us?
isolate v. repair, "what I did was wrong" v. "I am wrong", values v. honor
Which animal is the tallest in the world?
Giraffe
How does disgust organize us?
Disgust organizes our responses to situations and things that are offensive and contaminating. It focuses us on rejecting and distancing ourselves from some object, event, or situation.
How does guilt organize us?
Guilt organizes responses related to specific actions that have led to violation of values. It focuses us on actions and behaviors that are likely to repair the violation.
Name three functions of emotions
1. Communicate to ourselves
2.communicate to others
3. organize us for action
What is the difference between how jealousy and envy organize us?
something we have v. something we want, protect v. obtain
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctica
How does envy organize us?
Envy organizes our responses to others’ getting or having things we do not have but want or need. It focuses us on working hard to obtain what other people have.
How does jealousy organize us?
Jealousy organizes responses to others who threaten to take away relationships or things very important to us. It focuses us on protecting what we have.
Give an example of when having a painful emotion may be appropriate and effective for a situation or for survival
This can be answered a number of ways and you are likely correct, or on the right track :)
What is the difference between how anger and fear organize us?
escape v. self defense, alerts to a threat v. a block
What's the name of the mathematical theorem that allows you to calculate the length of a side of a right triangle?
The Pythagorean theorem