CH 8 Flashcards
What’s Appraisal
Conscious and unconscious evaluations and interpretations of the emotions-relevant aspects of a stimulus or event.
What’s the James-Lange Theory?
Stated that feelings are simply the perception of one’s own physiological responses to a stimulus.
Ex. See a bear and then your heart starts pounding, then your experience fear because of that.
What’s intensification?
Involves exaggerating the expression of one’s emotion, as people do when pretending to be delighted by an unwanted gift.
What’s deintensification?
Involves muting the expression of one’s emotion, as athletes do when they lose their events but try not to look too disappointed.
What’s masking?
Involves expression one emotion while feeling another, as a judge does when she tries to seem interested in, rather than contemptuous of, a lawyer’s argument.
What’s neutralizing?
Involves showing no expression of the emotion one is feeling, as when a card player tries to keep a “poker face”.
What’s the two-factor theory?
Suggests that different stimuli trigger the same general physiological response, which is interpreted or labelled differently under different circumstances.
What’s the Canon-Bard Theory?
Claims that we feel emotion at the same time that our bodies respond.
What’s the Schachter-Singer Theory?
Proposes that our interpretation of an emotional event leads us to put a cognitive label on that event (such as, “I am afraid”.). Then out body’s physical arousal and the cognitive label for the event combine to create our actual experience of emotion.
What’s the Hedonic Principle?
Is the claim that people are primarily motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain, and that claim has a very long history.
What’s Emotion Regulation?
Refers to the strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
Ex (e.g., avoiding situations that trigger unwanted emotions) and some are cognitive (e.g., recruiting memories that trigger the desired emotion)
What’s Reappraisal?
Which involves changing one’s emotional experience by changing the way one thinks about the emotion-eliciting stimulus.
What’s Ghrelin?
A hormone produced in the stomach and appears to be one of the orexigenic signals that tells the brain to switch hunger on. They also binds to neurons in the Hippocampus and temporarily improves learning and memory.
What’s Leptin?
Is a chemical secreted by fat cells, and it is an anorexic signal that tells the brain to switch hunger off. Seems to do this by making food less rewarding.
What is the order of the Sexual Response Cycle?
Excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
