Emotion vs moods - answer-short-lived - only seconds or minutes
Longer lasting - hours , days
Fredrickson's broaden and build theory - answer-positive emotions encourage behaviors that are exploratory and broaden awareness.
3 characteristics of emotion - answer-brief, specific, functional...
PSYC 140 EXAM 3 2025
Emotion vs moods - answer-short-lived - only seconds or minutes
Longer lasting - hours , days
Fredrickson's broaden and build theory - answer-positive emotions
encourage behaviors that are exploratory and broaden awareness.
3 characteristics of emotion - answer-brief, specific, functional
William james theory of emotions - answer-witnessing an external stimulus
leads to a physiological response - emotional reactoin depends on how you
interpret those physical reactions
Schater & singer's two factory theory - answer-
Suspension bridge study - answer-study done to prove misattribution of
arousal - misattributed sexual arousal with arousal from fear
Affective forecasting - answer-we oversestimate how positive and negative
we will feel in response to good or bad events
Focalism - answer-idea that we tend to focus on that one specific negative
experience and overlook how life will move in
Immune neglect - answer-just like our physical immune system, we develop
ways to cope and feel better
5 sources of happiness - answer-money
Relationships
Freedom
Emotional expression
Practice
Stereotypres - answer-overgeneralized beliefs about the traits and attributes
of members of a particular group
Sources of strereotypes - answer-natural categorization
Outgroup homogeneity effect
Social role theory
Natural categorization - answer-adaptive to notice us vs them
, Outgroup homogeneity effect - answer-the tendency to view out group
members as more similar to each other than they really are
Own race bias - answer-difficulty distinguishing faces of other races
Social role theory - answer-
Reasons strereotypes persist - answer-efficiency
Justifies prejudice
Justifies discrimination
Justifies the status quo
Benevolent sexism - answer-chivalrous attitude toward women that feels
favorable but is actually sexist
Self-fulfilling prophesy - answer-stereotypes affect behavior toward outgroup
members in ways that confirm negative stereotype of their group
Stereotype threat - answer-concern that one might do something that
confirms a negative stereotype of their group
Disidentification - answer-removing effore and engagement in areas where
your group has traditionally been underrepresented
Prejudice - answer-a negative attitude towards someone based solely on
their membership to a particular group
Discrimination - answer-negative behavior towards someone based solely on
their membership to a particular group
Realistic group conflict - answer-prejudice is likely to arise when groups have
to compete for limited resources
Ingroup bias - answer-tendency to favor one's own group
Minimal group paradigm - answer-create groups that have no social reality
Institutional discrimination - answer-laws and policies that unfairly
disadvantage certain groups
Implicit prejudice - answer-negative attitudes toward a group of people
below the level of conscious awareness
Stigma consciousness - answer-the tendency to expect that others will define
you based on your membership in a stigmatized group
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