Affect Regulation - Eppp Knowledge
- Identify the strategy: A client reframes criticism as useful feedback to reduce anger.
- Cognitive reappraisal. Reappraisal changes the interpretation of a situation to alter its emotional significance.
- Identify the strategy: A client scrolls on a phone during conflict to not feel upset.
- Attentional deployment (distraction). Distraction redirects attention from emotional cues to neutral stimuli to downregulate affect.
- Identify the strategy: A client keeps a neutral face while intensely anxious in public.
- Expressive suppression. Suppression involves inhibiting visible signs of emotion while the internal experience persists.
- Which strategy is antecedent-focused: cognitive reappraisal or expressive suppression?
- Cognitive reappraisal. Reappraisal occurs early in the emotion-generative process, before full emotional response activation.
- What appraisal component in Lazarus theory concerns what is at stake (harm, threat, challenge)?
- Primary appraisal. In Lazarus's theory, primary appraisal assesses the personal relevance and potential impact of a situation.
- What does the Cannon-Bard theory propose about emotion and physiological arousal timing?
- Emotion and arousal occur simultaneously. Cannon-Bard theory asserts that thalamic signals trigger both emotional experience and bodily changes at once.
- In Gross process model, which strategy is changing the situation to alter emotion?
- Situation selection or situation modification. These antecedent-focused strategies in Gross's model alter the emotional trajectory by changing the environment.
- Identify the strategy: A client avoids news to prevent distressing emotions.
- Situation selection (avoidance of triggers). This antecedent strategy involves choosing environments to minimize exposure to emotion-provoking stimuli.
- In Gross process model, what is attentional deployment (name one canonical example)?
- Directing attention; example: distraction. Attentional deployment shifts focus away from emotion-eliciting stimuli to regulate affective responses.
- What does the James-Lange theory propose about the sequence of emotion and physiology?
- Physiological arousal precedes conscious emotion. James-Lange theory holds that distinct bodily responses generate the experience of specific emotions.
- What appraisal component in Lazarus theory evaluates coping options and resources?
- Secondary appraisal. In Lazarus's theory, secondary appraisal involves judging one's ability to manage or cope with the situation.
- What is the core idea of Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion?
- Emotion = arousal + cognitive label. Schachter-Singer posits that emotion results from physiological arousal interpreted via cognitive cues.
- In Gross process model, what is response modulation (the canonical strategy name)?
- Expressive suppression. Response modulation directly alters behavioral or physiological expressions of emotion after onset.
- Which strategy is response-focused: cognitive reappraisal or expressive suppression?
- Expressive suppression. Suppression targets the outward signs of emotion after the emotional response has been generated.
- In Gross process model, what is cognitive change (the canonical strategy name)?
- Cognitive reappraisal. Cognitive change involves altering the meaning of a situation to modify its emotional impact.
- Which theory best explains misattributing arousal to a wrong source (excitation transfer)?
- Schachter-Singer two-factor theory. Excitation transfer occurs when residual arousal from one source is mislabeled as emotion from another.
- Which coping type targets the stressor itself rather than the emotional response?
- Problem-focused coping. Problem-focused coping aims to modify or eliminate the source of stress through direct actions.