[PSYCO105] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 36 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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Emotional intelligence - the ability to carry out accurate reasoning about emotions and the ability to use emotions and emotional knowledge to enhance thought (involved both interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence) 6 basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust. Expression of these emotions comes more easily to those with more emotional intelligence. Those who can see and understand how others are feeling (high emotional intelligence) also have high interpersonal intelligence. Anger superiority effect - people are going to adapt to be faster to recognize anger (hostile con-specifics) Disease avoidance hypothesis - the emotion of disgust is a hypothesized adaptation that serves as a defense against microbial attack. We avoid foods that may be contaminated with disease. We tend to be disgusted by the same things (core human emotion): rotting food, dead insects on food, feces. Disgust face - wrinkled nose, raised upper lip. Even those bind since birth make this face (is not learned, is innate)
