10- Defining Emotion Flashcards
What can music affect?
The emotional state of the listener
What can emotional state of an individual affect?
Cognitive performance
What can music change?
The way we perceive a person
What did Davidson (2003) say?
A deadly sin of cognitive neuroscience is to assume emotions are independent from cognition
What are emotions?
Responses to stimuli in the environment
What do emotions refer to? (Gilhooly, 2011)
Various mental states
What is the duration of emotions? (Gilhooly, 2011)
Short-lived
What are emotions associated with? (Gilhooly, 2011)
With an eliciting event
How are emotions made unique?
Certain features
What kind of responses are emotions and what are they triggered by?
Mind-brain responses triggered by a chunk of information
What is the typical duration of emotions?
Short- generally last for a few hours
Sometimes last for hours (Gobet, 2011)
When do emotions have a ‘fuzzy’ onset? (Gilhooly, 2011)
As the emotions dissipate over time
What is the onset of an emotion?
Clear
What kind of experience do emotions generate?
Subjective
What do emotions provide us with?
Feedback on execution of our plans relative to our goals
What do emotions reduce?
Discrepancies between actual and expected outcomes
What do emotions generate?
Action tendencies
What is suggested that a motivational-behavioural component to emotion involves?
Our actions in response to the emotion
How do we communicate our feelings to others?
Accompanied facial expressions with emotions
What did Ekman and Friesen (1971) analyse?
Films and photos of people experiencing a range of real emotions
Who came up with ethological signalling theory?
Huron, 2022
What is the purpose of an “ethological signal”?
To transform the behavior of the observer
What has fueled the growing interest in cognition and emotion since the 1980s?
Advances in computer technology
What has morphing done?
Made it possible to represent changes in facial expression of emotion
Where and who with is most research conducted?
With clinical populations and in clinical settings
Why has fear been extensively researched?
As it is the easiest emotion to infer from behaviour
