Mental Health
The idea that mental health problems stem from issues such as chemical imbalances or disease.
What is biological or physiological perspective.
An evaluation of some target (e.g., person, object) that is either negative or positive. It usually has an emotional component.
What is an attitude?
This is the general term used to label the 6 or 7 feelings that are recognized fairly universally.
What is primary emotion?
The idea that we prefer relationships where "rewards" outweigh the "costs" of the relationship.
What is social exchange (theory)?
What element distinguishes a general crowd (e.g., many people milling through a mall) from a large group of people engaged in collective action?
What is a focus on shared purpose?
The manual used by psychologists to classify and diagnose mental illnesses.
What is the DSM?
An attitude toward a particular group that is generally marked by extreme hostility and dislike.
What is a prejudice?
Pride and conceit are considered what type of emotions?
What is secondary?
That element of love associated with physical attraction and arousal.
What is passion?
Collective action aimed at changing creating some new social order.
What is a social movement?
What is stigma?
Negative views and feelings about a particular group that you may not even be consciously aware of.
What is implicit bias?
The practice of generating or controlling one's feelings to meet social expectations for particular roles or situations.
What is emotion work?
This theoretical notion proposes that the one with the most power in a relationship is the person who will lose the least if the relationship ends.
What is the principle of least interest?
This occurs when there is intense behavior, shared mood, and irrational behavior.
What is contagion?
Persistent stressors that exist in a person's life, such as poverty.
What is chronic strain?
Forms of bias (e.g., racism, sexism) that are part of a system, such as a workplace, the education system, the law, etc.
What is institutionalized?
The idea that emotional responses must be earned and legitimate -- for example, feeling gratitude for someone who has helped you out, or feeling sympathy for someone who has experienced a major loss.
What is the economy of emotion or the socioemotional economy?
The ideal type of love many people aspire to in marriage.
What is consummate love?
This shared connection between individuals helps to motivate their purposeful action in a group.
What is collective identity?
These elements of the stress process model either reduce or intensify the impact of a stressor on the stress outcome.
What are moderators?
Positive or helpful actions aimed at helping another are know as this type of behavior.
What is prosocial?
One's ability or skill at detecting emotional cues or reading emotion in others so that they can behave appropriately in social situations.
What is emotional intelligence?
The term used to describe similarity in interests, personality, background characteristics, etc.
What is homophily?
This type of protest participant cares about the issue at hand but does not invest much personally in promoting the issue.
What is a concerned participant?