Self-Awareness & Emotional Recognition Flashcards
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The 'emotion wheel,' developed by Robert Plutchik, is used primarily to:
Answer: Identify and expand emotional vocabulary
Plutchik's emotion wheel organizes emotions into primary, secondary, and tertiary categories, helping individuals identify and name their feelings more precisely.
Keeping an emotion journal MOST directly supports which aspect of self-awareness?
Answer: Recognizing recurring emotional patterns and triggers
Regular journaling allows individuals to track emotional episodes over time, revealing patterns, common triggers, and habitual responses that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Which physiological cue is a common somatic signal of anxiety that a self-aware person learns to recognize?
Answer: Tight chest, rapid heartbeat, and shallow breathing
Anxiety commonly produces physical signals such as chest tightness, increased heart rate, and shallow breathing; recognizing these somatic cues is a key self-awareness skill.
The concept of a 'mood meter,' used in the RULER approach, helps users:
Answer: Plot their current emotion on axes of energy and pleasantness
The RULER mood meter maps emotions on two axes — energy level (high/low) and pleasantness (pleasant/unpleasant) — helping users recognize and name what they are feeling.
Which of the following is an example of poor emotional self-awareness at work?
Answer: Snapping at a colleague and not understanding why you felt irritated
Snapping at someone and lacking insight into the cause demonstrates an inability to recognize one's own emotional state in the moment, a hallmark of low self-awareness.
Self-awareness as described in Daniel Goleman's EI model includes which TWO sub-competencies?
Answer: Emotional self-awareness and accurate self-assessment
Goleman's model places emotional self-awareness (recognizing your emotions and their impact) and accurate self-assessment (knowing your strengths and limits) under the self-awareness domain.
When someone consistently misreads their own emotional state, interpreting stress as excitement or anger as passion, this is an example of:
Answer: Emotional misattribution or mislabeling
Emotional misattribution occurs when a person inaccurately labels what they are experiencing, often because the physiological arousal of different emotions overlaps.