motivation and emotion unit 5

emotions and emotional processes

what is an emotion? 1 pt

emotions are short-lived feeling-arousal-purposice-expressive phenomena that help us adapt to the opportunities and challenges we face during important life events

what are the four components of emotions?

1. feelings- the subjective experience and provides meaning and personal significance

2. arousal/phsiological activation- includes neural and physiological activation

3. purposive- gives emotion its goal directed character to take action necessary to cope with the situation; the impulse to act a certain way

4. social expressive- non-verbal communicative aspects including postures, gestures. facial expressions, and vocalisations

FAPS

what are the two ways in which emotions relate to motivation: 2 pts

1. emotions are a type of motive that energuxe and direct behavior

2. emotions serve as an ongoing readout system indicating how well or bad things are going

what are feelings? 1 pt

mental association and reactions to emotions influenced by experience, belief, and memories

mental potrayal of what is happening inside the body when oyou experience an emotion

a byproduct of the brain perceiving and assigning meaning to an emotion

what is the process of an emotional episode? 1 pt SAAR

1. situation

2. attention

3. appraisal

4. response

what are the different emotional regulation strategies? 5 pts

1. situation selection- taking actions that make it more or less likely to find oneself in a situation expected to elicit desirable or undesirable emotions

2. situation modification- addresses the source of emotional responses directly by actively changing the situation to alter its emotional effect

3. attentional deployment- directing attention away from or towards emotional aspects of a sitation to influence emotions and includes distraction, concentration, and mindfulness

4. cognitive change- changing how one appraises the situation to alter its emotional significance, includes reappraisal

5. response modulation- influencing physiological, experiential, or behavioral responses as directly as possible to modify behavior, includes suppression

at what stages of an emotional episode do the different emotional regulation strategies apply? 5 pts

1. situation selction- prior to the onset of an emotional episode

2. situation modification- at the situation stage

3. attentional deployment- at the attention stage

4. cognitive change- at the appraisal stage

5. response modulation- after the emotional episode occurs at the response stage

what are the intrapersonal functions of emotions? 5 pts

1. coordinate subjective, physiological, and behavioral systems

2. change behavioral hierarchies and activate unexpected behaviors

3. provide physiological support for our behaviors

4. enable fast processing of information

5. highlight important information

what are the interpersonal functions of emotions? 2 pts

1. help us understand how we feel and exert influence on others’ emotional states

2. shape our position in relation to others and establish boundaries between us and them