Social Psyc Exam #2 (Emotions) Flashcards

• rules that are learned early in life that specify the management and modification
  of emotional expressions (social circumstances)
• can work in several different ways.

• people express emotions
  “as is” (i.e., as they feel them), to....
  • exaggerate their expressions to show more than what is
    actually felt
• to tone down their expressions
  • show less than what is actually felt,
• to conceal their feelings
  • expressing something else, or to show nothing at all.

• relationship or interaction between two or more individuals in a group

• interpersonal functions of emotion refer to the effects of one’s emotions on others, or to the relationship between oneself and others.

• what occurs within oneself

• functions of emotion refer
  to the effects of emotion to individuals that occur physically inside their bodies and psychologically inside their minds.

• refers to a system of relationships between individuals and groups of individuals

refers to the meaning and information afforded to that system that is transmitted
across generations

• the effects that
  emotions have on the functioning and maintenance of societies and cultures.

• the process whereby individuals look for information from others to clarify a situation, and then use that information to act

• individuals will often use the emotional expressions of others as a source of information to make decisions about their own behavior.

• arousal
• valence

• high arousal-positive states refer to excitement, elation, and enthusiasm.
• Low arousal positive states refer to calm, peacefulness, and relaxation.
• “actual affect” refers to the states that people feel, “ideal affect” refers to the states that people ideally want to feel

• Shared, socially transmitted ideas (e.g., values, beliefs, attitudes) that are reflected in and reinforced by institutions, products, and rituals.

• Changes in subjective experience, physiological responding, and behavior in response to a meaningful event.
• occur on the order of seconds (in contract to moods
  which may last for days).

• describe a wide range of states that include emotions, moods, traits
  and that typically involve changes in subjective experience, physiological responding, and
  behavior in response to a meaningful event
• Emotions = order of seconds
• Mood = last for days
• Traits = tendencies to respond a certain way across
  various situations.

• A model or view of the self as distinct from others and as stable across different situations.
• Goal = to express and assert the self, and to influence others.
• prevalent in many individualistic, Western contexts (e.g., the United States, Australia, Western Europe)

• A model or view of the self as connected to others and as changing in response to different situations.
• goal = to suppress personal preferences and desires,
  and to adjust to others.
• prevalent in many collectivistic, East Asian contexts (e.g., China, Japan, Korea)

• proposes that knowledge is first created and learned within a social
  context and is then adopted by individuals.

• proposes that there are single objective standards, independent of culture, in
  basic domains such as learning, reasoning, and emotion that are a part of all human experience.