12 Questions
What is the term that encompasses preferences, evaluations, moods, and emotions?
Affect
What type of reaction involves a mild subjective response, typically pleasant or unpleasant?
Preference
What is a prolonged state of positive or negative emotion that lacks a specific target?
Mood
What is triggered by specific events or stimuli, and is a more complex set of emotions?
Emotion
What is a subjective reaction to a specific target?
Evaluation
What is characterized by intense emotional experiences, often accompanied by bodily responses?
Emotion
What are emotions characterized as in terms of complexity?
Complex sets of affects
What is the bipolar structure of affect characterized by?
Positive-negative evaluation and high-low arousal
What theory proposes that cognitive interpretation shapes emotions through arousal?
Interruption theories
What combines with evaluative cognition to produce emotion according to the arousal-plus-mind theory?
Arousal
How do powerful individuals perceive their world in terms of emotions?
They experience approach emotions
What refers to emotions elicited by situations or individuals that match pre-existing schemas or categories?
Schema-triggered affect
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