CMN 101 Quiz Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
What do CMC and HCI stand for and what are the definitions of each? -
✔✔Computer-mediated communication and Human-computer interactions.
Modern technologies increasingly allow emotions to be communicated in
sophisticated ways through electronic devices and screens, both between people
being physically apart from each—CMC—and between people and computers--
HCI.
What are the three different ways in which humans experience emotion? - ✔✔1.
The subjective experience of having an emotion: "I am having an emotion."
2. The physiological response accompanying most emotions: blushing, increased
heartbeat, butterflies in the stomach
3. Visible, audible, or behavioral expressions of emotions: tears, laughter,
clenching first.
Affect - ✔✔used as a broader concept than emotion, generally covers the various
forms of emotional phenomena and often used to distinguish the affective state
from cognition. Affect has varying degrees and is conceptualized as a longer-
lasting phenomenon than emotion.
Mood - ✔✔This term is often applied to an enduring affective state, characterized
by globality and not clearly elicited by an external event.
Prototypical emotions - ✔✔These types of emotions are what most people
consider clearest cases of emotion types, like grief and happiness.
Basic emotions - ✔✔Certain emotions are universal, biologically basic, and "given
by nature." (anger, sadness, fear, happiness, disgust)
What do CMC and HCI stand for and what are the definitions of each? -
✔✔Computer-mediated communication and Human-computer interactions.
Modern technologies increasingly allow emotions to be communicated in
sophisticated ways through electronic devices and screens, both between people
being physically apart from each—CMC—and between people and computers--
HCI.
What are the three different ways in which humans experience emotion? - ✔✔1.
The subjective experience of having an emotion: "I am having an emotion."
2. The physiological response accompanying most emotions: blushing, increased
heartbeat, butterflies in the stomach
3. Visible, audible, or behavioral expressions of emotions: tears, laughter,
clenching first.
Affect - ✔✔used as a broader concept than emotion, generally covers the various
forms of emotional phenomena and often used to distinguish the affective state
from cognition. Affect has varying degrees and is conceptualized as a longer-
lasting phenomenon than emotion.
Mood - ✔✔This term is often applied to an enduring affective state, characterized
by globality and not clearly elicited by an external event.
Prototypical emotions - ✔✔These types of emotions are what most people
consider clearest cases of emotion types, like grief and happiness.
Basic emotions - ✔✔Certain emotions are universal, biologically basic, and "given
by nature." (anger, sadness, fear, happiness, disgust)
