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Question 1

What are basic emotions?

Answer 1

Fundamentally distinct entities.

Question 2

The Basic Emotions Model is based on what three assumptions? (Using anger as an example)

Answer 2

1) Anger is probably an evolved characteristic

2) Everyone has the capacity for anger.

3) Various aspects of anger should hang together wherever you go, even if people talk about their feelings in different ways.

Question 3

What are the four criteria for an emotion in the Basic Emotions model?

Answer 3

1) Basic emotions should be universal amongst humans.

2) If an emotion is basic, people should have distinct, built-in way of expressing it.

3) The emotion should be evident in early life.

4) The emotion should be physiologically distinct.

Question 4

What is the circumplex model? What emotion model does it fall into?

Answer 4

It falls into the dimensional model. Russell proposed it. It’s where the emotions form a circle difined by the dimensions of pleasantness and arousal.

Question 5

In the circumplex model, the feeling aspect of emotion in terms of pleasantness and arousal is called _______?

Answer 5

Core affect

Question 6

What is the evaluative space model?

Answer 6

It says our evaluations of some target’s goodness and badness are independent of each other, such that something can be good and bad at the same time. Positive and negative affect should be independent dimensions of feeling.

Question 7

What is the Component Process Theory?

Answer 7

An emotion reflects a compound of more elementary appraisals. An emotion is made up of different components.