9. Emotions & judgement Flashcards
What three components determine emotions? (Emotion & judgement Social)
- Physiological arousal
- Expressive behaviours
- Cognitive experience
What is physiological arousal? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Internal changes involving the ANS and hormones
What is expressive behaviours? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Facial expressions/posture and feelings of disposition to behave in a particular way (design on the emotion)
What is cognitive experience? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Subjective feeling and knowing why you feel this way
What is an emotion? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Specific feeling about something
What is mood? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Less intense, longer lasting (than emotion) clearly linked to an event
What is affect? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Generic term that covers mood and emotion
How does the evolutionary approach explain emotions? (Emotion & judgement Social)
As the promotion of the right response to an occurring situation
What is the hot and cold empathy gap? (Emotion & judgement Social)
The ability to underestimate the influence our emotions have on our judgements and decisions
What did aristotle state in regards to emotion? (Emotion & judgement Social)
‘The law is reason free from passion’
What did Zajonc believe? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Emotions come before cognition
What did Lazarus believe? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Cognition comes before emotion
What two tasks have shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)
- Mood congruent theory
- State dependent theory
How has mood congruent theory shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)
We are more likely to retrieve memories that are consistent with our mood
How has state dependent theory shown emotions to influence memory? (Emotion & judgement Social)
We remember best when encoding ,watches mood at recall
What is Bowers network theory (1981)? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Emotional arousal spreads through a network and primes the nodes it is associated with (easier to retrieve these memories)
What is depressive realism? (Emotion & judgement Social)
- Depressed individuals make more realistic judgements than those who are not depressed
- Depressed individuals display a positive bias when rating other people (not accurate overall)
What is misattribution of arousal? (Emotion & judgement Social)
The process where people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to be aroused
How are our emotions and judgements linked? (Emotion & judgement Social)
We use our emotions as a source of information when making a judgement
What did Ariely & Loewenstein (2006) find? (Emotion & judgement Social)
When males were sexually aroused, they rated themselves as being more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviours and more likely to involve in data-rape culture
What does damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex show? (Emotion & judgement Social)
Impairs the ability to make decisions and learn from mistakes
