A PSY 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Frontal Lobe, Surgency, Negative Affectivity
13 Jun 2018
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Exam 3: Day 17
What makes us who we are?
• Emotion, temperament, and personality
Emotional Regulation
• Influencing (and moderating) emotions
• Situation Modification
o Change the situation → emotion changes
• Attentional deployment
o Change the thoughts → emotion changes
• Response modification
o Change the physiological response → emotion changes
Emotional Preparedness
• Prepared to experience specific emotions for certain situations!
• Fear → Strong genetic component → No need for ever being exposed to feared object
• Disgust
o Related to the risk of ingesting something harmful
o Cross cultural variability in adults shows sociocultural influence
Temperament and Personality
• Temperament
o Tendency toward particular emotion and behavioral responses to a context
o Emerges early in life
o Stable throughout the course of life
• Personality
o Emotion related features of personality have roots in temperament
Trait approaches to Temperament
• Emphasis on biological factors
o Behavioral patterns as heritable traits
• 3 main trait like categories
o Emotionality
o Activity level
o Sociability
• 3 main categories of interest emerged because:
o Each appears to have a strong genetic component
Early Studies of Temperament
• New York longitudinal Study
o Iteries ith others ad ifat’s atiities ad routie
o Developed a scale of 9 dimensions
▪ Activity level, approach/withdrawal, adaptability, mood, responsiveness,
reactivity, distractibility, rhythmicity, attention span/ persistence
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Document Summary
What makes us who we are: emotion, temperament, and personality. Influencing (and moderating) emotions: situation modification, change the situation emotion changes, attentional deployment, change the thoughts emotion changes, response modification, change the physiological response emotion changes. Temperament and personality: temperament, tendency toward particular emotion and behavioral responses to a context, emerges early in life, stable throughout the course of life, personality, emotion related features of personality have roots in temperament. Trait approaches to temperament: emphasis on biological factors, behavioral patterns as heritable traits, 3 main trait like categories, emotionality, activity level, sociability, 3 main categories of interest emerged because, each appears to have a strong genetic component. Early studies of temperament: new york longitudinal study. I(cid:374)ter(cid:448)ie(cid:449)s (cid:449)ith (cid:373)others a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t"s a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities a(cid:374)d routi(cid:374)e: developed a scale of 9 dimensions, activity level, approach/withdrawal, adaptability, mood, responsiveness, reactivity, distractibility, rhythmicity, attention span/ persistence. Exam 3: day 17: classified (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies as (cid:862)easy(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1008)(cid:1004)%(cid:895), (cid:862)diffi(cid:272)ult(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)%(cid:895) slo(cid:449) to (cid:449)ar(cid:373) up (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1009)%(cid:895) a(cid:374)d average (35%)
