CH1 - Nature
One can never directly observe these; can make inferences only.
Emotion
Problematic mutations are removed from the population and beneficial mutations are spread through the population
Natural Selection
As a system of meaning, _______ helps us interpret, understand & explain the world around us.
Culture
Richard Lazarus (1991), believes he core relational theme evoking guilt is...
Basic/Discrete Emotions
By mid-20th century, these observational scientists documented many culture-specific emotion expressions.
Anthropologists
This discipline of psychology explores how and why people differ in their emotions.
Personality Psychology
Theory whereby humans move toward positive emotions and move away from negative emotions.
Approach and Avoidance Motivation
North American emotion concepts are applicable to all cultures world-wide.
False
The phenomenon of having a greater preference for stimuli that one has seen a greater number of times
Mere Exposure Effect
He created the basic emotion expression prototypes used in research for decades.
Paul Ekman
Aspects of emotions are subjective feelings, physiological responses, behaviors and these...
Cognitive Appraisals
Social functions of emotions help us to create interdependent relations with others to survive and ________ in our environments.
adapt
This concept contends humans require language to think, thus only have experiences and perceptions for which they have words.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
A subjective interpretation of what a stimulus means for our goals, concerns, and well-being.
Appraisal
Facial Feedback Hypothesis was debunked by the Pen-In-Mouth Replication Study.
True
He revised his theory to include a complex model of cognitive appraisals after being criticized.
William James
A copying error, or mutation, will occur during the this process.
Replication
Cultural emphasis on personal uniqueness, being true to one’s self and independence from others.
Individualism
He said "appraisals are the cause of emotions but are not the emotions."
Richard Lazarus
A set of standardized and normed expression responses that govern the regulation of expressive behaviors.
Cultural Display Rules