A mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behaviour
Emotion
Our experience of an emotion is the result of the arousal that we experience.
James-Lange theory
The physiological responses that occur when an organism fails to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats.
Stress
The 6 basic emotions are
Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise
A general tendency to expect positive outcomes.
Optimism
The experience of feeling or emotion
Affect
The experience of emotion is determined by the intensity of the arousal we are experiencing, but the cognitive appraisal of the situation determines what the emotion will be.
Two-factor theory
Our everyday interactions with the environment that are essentially negative.
Daily hassles
What is measured on the vertical axis of the emotions coordinate system?
Arousal
The ability to successfully control our emotions.
Emotion regulation
Our experiences of the bodily responses created by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
A state of excitement or energy expenditure linked to an emotion. Usually closely related to a person’s appraisal of the significance of an event or to the physical intensity of a stimulus.
Arousal
The experience of an emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal.
Cannon-Bard theory
The three distinct phases of physiological change that occur in response to long-term stress.
General adaptation syndrome
What is measured on the horizontal axis of the emotions coordinate system?
Pleasantness
The belief in our ability to carry out actions that produce desired outcomes.
Self-efficacy
What factor (that we are interested in from a psychological perspective) contributed to Captain Sullenberger's ability to land his plane successfully on the Hudson River?
Emotion regulation
The tendency for people to incorrectly label the source of the arousal that they are experiencing.
Misattribution of arousal
What are the 3 phases of general adaptation syndrome?
Alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
Despair is defined as a complete loss of hope; misery; difficult or unable to be helped or comforted. Where would it belong on the emotions coordinate system and why?
Lower left?
A behavioural reaction to stress that involves activities designed to create social networks that provide protection from threats.
Tend-and-befriend response
A driving force that initiates and directs behaviour.
Motivation
What is the equation for the 2-factor theory?
Emotion = arousal + cognition
An emotional and behavioural reaction to stress that increases the readiness for action.
Fight-or-flight response
These emotions fully develop later than basic emotions because they depend on landmarks in cognitive development, such as a sense of self and theory of mind.
Self-conscious and social emotions (Secondary)
A medical syndrome that includes symptoms of anxiety, sleeplessness, nightmares, and social withdrawal.
Post-traumatic stress disorder