AP Psych Mod 42

emotional intelligence

ability to understand and manage your own emotional experiences- perceive and respond to others

introverts

able to detect emotions in others better

emotion

affects tone of voice, facial expression ex: eyebrows together- fear, cheeks up-smile

fear, surprise, anger, disgust, happiness, sadness, contempt

basic facial emotions

women

better at reading emotion and are more emotional, more empathic

adaptation-level principle

describes our tendency to judge various stimuli relative to what we have previously experienced- explains how people adapt to their level of happiness

false

expression- deliberately made simulation of an emotion not being felt

masked

expression- false expression made to cover a macro expression

micro

expressions- brief facial expressions lasting only a fraction of a second, when deliberately or unconsciously conceals a feeling

men

get angrier easier

culture

meanings of gestures vary throughout ____; musical and facial expressions always the same

behavior feedback

motions awaken emotions- thumbs up positive, middle finger hostile, act as others to feel what others feel

macro

normal expression usually last .5-4 seconds, often repeat, and fit with what is said and the sound of voice

extroverts

others can more easily read their emotions

labeling process

process of assigning a name to what we feel

paul ekman

said each basic emotion is associated with a unique facial expression- innate facial expressions capable of 10,000 expressions

display rules

social and cultural rules that regulate emotional expression, especially facial expression

Darwin

speculated nonverbal facial expressions led to our ancestors survival (hard wired)

health psychology

subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine

facial feedback effect

tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness (feace feeds feethings) ex: smile- more easily amused

cognitive labeling

thinking about how we feel

facial expression

universal, automatic response, help with reading emotions, amplify emotions (charles darwin) hard to feel one emotion when making the ____ of another