PSYCH 314 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aluva, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism
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Understand the coping, social, and motivational functions of emotions: coping function evolutionary perspective helps us cope with our environment and what"s going on around us, appraisal function emotions as info; influence of appraisal; appraisal tendency bias: each emotion has a unique influence on judgment, motivating function evaluative space model net mood: good mood helps you approach (approach behavior); negative mood can affect when you bail out (avoidance behavior) Understand the continuums of the big 5 personality traits (e. g. what does it mean to be high" on neuroticism? what does it mean to be low" on neuroticism?: extroversion introversion, high in extroversion: outgoing, gregarious, focus on external (world around you/outside of you, low in extroversion: deliberate, prefer close, small interactions, focus on internal (more in tune to thoughts, there is a biological component to extroversion, which is associated with arousal, extroverted are always under aroused.
