Module 39: Experiencing Emotion: – Flashcards
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Who isolated 10 basic emotions?
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Carroll Izard
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_______________ cultures encourage people to vent their rage.
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Individualistic
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Emotional release. In psychology, the ____________ hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
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Catharsis
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True or false: Expressing anger can be temporarily calming.
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True
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_________ primes ____________.
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Anger; prejudice
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True or false: Venting or acting inwardly on anger is more effective than keeping quiet and forgiving.
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False
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People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
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The scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.
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Positive psychology
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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.
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Subjective well-being
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Some of the things researchers of positive psychology are exploring are: positive _____________, positive ___________, positive ___________, and positive _____________.
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emotions; health; neuroscience; education
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Satisfaction with the past, happiness with the present, and optimism about the future define the positive psychology movement's first pillar:
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positive well-being
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Positive psychology's second pillar, ___________ ___________, focuses on exploring and enhancing creativity, courage, compassion, integrity, self-control, leadership, wisdom, and spirituality.
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positive character
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Positive psychology's third pillar, ____________ _____________, seeks to foster a positive social ecology; includes healthy families, communal neighborhoods, effective schools, socially responsible media, and civil dialogue.
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positive groups, communities, and cultures
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According to billions of Facebook statuses and tweets analyzed by Adam Kramer for positive emotion, the happiest days of the week for most people are:
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Friday-Sunday
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True or false: We overestimate the duration of our emotions and underestimate our resiliency and capacity to adapt.
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True
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The power of more money to increase happiness is significant at ________ incomes and _______________ as income rises.
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low; diminishes
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True or false: Economic growth in affluent countries has provided an apparent boost to morale and social well-being.
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False
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True or false: Wealth correlates with well-being only to an optimal point at which basic needs are satisfied.
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True
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Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, lights, income, pleasures, etc.) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. Thus, after an initial surge of pleasure, improvements become our "new normal", and we then require something even better to give us another surge of happiness.
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Adaptation-level phenomenon
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The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
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Relative deprivation
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Do genes play a role in happiness?
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Yes
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Self-esteem and achievement matter more to ____________ cultures, who value individualism.
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Western
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Social acceptance and harmony matter more to those in _______________ cultures, such as Japan, which stress family and community.
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communal
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Who proposed ways in which nations might measure national well-being, relying on happiness research?
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Ed Diener
