biological emotion Flashcards
what are the 3 main component of biological emotion
- autonomic nervous system
- subcortical brain circuts
- facial feedback
3 main components of cognitive emotion
- knowledge
- appraisals
- attributions
quick summary of darwins idea of emotions
saw the same types of emotional expressions in man and animals,, believed that emotions might be innate
argued that emotions used to be adaptive, but now they are communicative
what was the leading belief in the early 1900’s regarding emotion and describe it
social constructivism,, belived that emotions were created by culture
what are some types of nonverbal behavior>
emblems, illustrators and regulator
what is an example of an emblem?
thumbs up,, these differ across cultures
what are illustrators?
accentuare our speech, ie) talking with our hands
what are self adaptors?
when people do not mean to be communicative but they are ie) tapping foot unknowingly to signal nervousness
eckman studied
nonverbal behavior
what is encoding?
when you experience something and express it in a certain way
what is decoding
when someone else expresses something, and you have to make meaning of it
quick summary of eckman and sorensons experiement with facial expression
hired actors ot create facial expressions for different emotions and then took these photos to brazil, japan, fore and borneo to see if in that culture the expressions could still be understoo?
-the culture with the most exposure to the west had the best results
they also asked the residents to create facial expressions when given prompts as well to see if theirencoding of emotions was the same
evidence for a gradient of universality of emotion
what are the two parts of the nervous system
CNS and PNS
the PNS contains the
ANS
what are the two parts of the ANS?
sympathetic and parasympathetic
