Emotion Regulation

Emotions 101

100

Process by which we attend to and evaluate a situation as relevant to an active goal

Appraisal

200

Three domains in which emotions produce loosely coupled changes, according to Gross

Subjective experience, behavior, and physiology

300

Four-step sequence of the Modal Model

situation- attention- appraisal- response

Process Model

100

First strategy of the Process Model by Gross- choosing whether to enter a situation at all

Situation selection

200

This strategy involves directly changing the physical environment you're already in to alter its emotional impact

Situation modification

300

Changing how you think about a situation

Cognitive Change (reappraisal)

Constructionist

100

Situated conceptualizations are the brain's way of using prior knowledge to make sense of incoming sensory input. Without this prior knowledge, you experience this...

Experiential blindness

200

Depending on the situated conceptualization the brain applies, the same racing heart could be labeled as fear OR this emotion

Excitement (or fatigue)

300

What is a strategy to undo a conceptualization to experience raw sensations and could be trained through meditation?

Deconstruction

Dysregulation

100

Two broad causes of psychopathology

structural brain damage and entrenched conceptual habits

200

Depression is an example of this kind of calibration issue-- situated conceptualizations are driven too much by this source of input

too much internal signal/ reliance on prior experience and not enough external sensory input

300

Three types of dysregulation

Structural deficits, conceptual habits and entrenchment, and calibration issues