10.1

Question 1

emotion (affect)

Answer 1

feelings that involve subjective evaluation, physiological processes, and cognitive beliefs

Question 2

What are the three components of emotion?

Answer 2

1. subjective experience
2. physical changes
3. cognitive appraisals

Question 3

alexithymia

Answer 3

disorder that causes people to not experience the subjective components of emotions

Question 4

primary emotions

Answer 4

emotions that are evolutionary adaptive, shared across cultures, and associated with specific physical states; they include anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, and possibly surprise and contempt

Question 5

secondary emotions

Answer 5

blends of primary emotions; they include remorse, guilt, submission, and anticipation

Question 6

valence

Answer 6

indicates how negative or positive emotions are on the circumplex model

Question 7

activation

Answer 7

indicates how arousing emotions are on the circumplex model

Question 8

arousal

Answer 8

physiological activation (such as increased brain activity) or increased autonomic responses (such as increased heart rate, sweating, or muscle tension)

Question 9

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

Answer 9

we perceive specific patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception we feel emotion

Question 10

facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 10

ex: if you smile when you’re sad…you’ll become more happy

Question 11

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 11

the info from an emotion-producing stimulus is processed in subcortical structures. As a result, we experience 2 separate things at roughly the same time: an emotion and physical reaction.

Question 12

limbic system

Answer 12

consists of brain structures that border the cerebral cortex

Question 13

what is the amygdala’s role?

Answer 13

• processes the emotional significance of stimuli, and it generates immediate emotional and behavioral reactions.
• it also is involved in the perception of social stimuli when we decipher the emotional meanings of other people’s facial expressions (effect greatest for fear)

Question 14

what are the two paths information reaches the amygdala?

Answer 14

1. “quick and dirty” that processes info nearly instantaneously. It travels through the thalamus–>amygdala
2. Somewhat slower, but leads to more deliberate and thorough evaluations. Thalamus—> visual cortex

Question 15

Schachter-Singer Two-factor Theory

Answer 15

a situation evokes a physiological response, such as arousal, and a cognitive interpretation, or emotion label.

*whatever the person believes caused the emotion will determine how the person labels the emotion.

Question 16

rebound effect

Answer 16

people think more about something after suppression then before

Question 17

rumination

Answer 17

involves thinking about, elaborating, and focusing on undesired thoughts or feelings