7 - Emotion and Motivation

Question 1

Basic Emotions

Answer 1

Surprise, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, sadness

Question 2

James-Lange Theory

Answer 2

Emotions arise from bodily reactions

Question 3

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 3

Feeling emotions because of the way your facial features are positioned

Question 4

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 4

an event triggers both bodily responses and emotions at the same time (brain is responsible for both)

Question 5

Cognitive Theory

Answer 5

an emotion arises when you interpret the situation (may or may not include the bodily state)

Question 6

5 facts of fear

Answer 6

1. Fear can be an emotional reflex after it is learned (automatic)
2. Fear is classically conditioned, never fully lost.
3. Mental processes can alter how easily fear occurs
4. Amygdala does NOT play a role in producing the emotional “feel” of fear
5. No single brain area gives rise to a particular emotion

Question 7

instinct

Answer 7

an inherited tendency to produce organized and unalterable responses to particular stimuli

Question 8

Yerkes-Dodson Law (arousal theory)

Answer 8

There is an optimal level of arousal

Question 9

learned helplessness

Answer 9

aversive experience –> can do nothing to change it

circumstances change, now can avoid the aversive experience –> still don’t