Chapter 6 Student Resources

Flashcards

Key Terms

Moods

states resembling emotions, but generally longer lasting, less intense, and of unknown cause.

Semantic dementia

a brain-damaged condition involving widespread loss of information about words and concepts.

Interoceptive sensitivity:  individual differences in accuracy of detecting one’s own internal bodily sensations (e.g., heartbeat).

Cognitive appraisal

the individual’s interpretation of the current situation, which influences the nature and intensity of their emotional experience.

Affective blindsight

the ability in patients with damage to the primary visual area to discriminate among different emotional stimuli in spite of the absence of conscious awareness of these stimuli.

Emotion regulation

the management and control of emotional states by various processes (e.g., reappraisal; distraction).

Distraction

an emotion-regulation strategy in which attention is switched from emotional processing to neutral information.

Reappraisal

an emotion-regulation strategy in which the emotional significance of an event is changed through additional cognitive processing.