Ch8

Question 0

James-Lange Theory

Answer 0

Theory which asserts that stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system and in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain

(Body reacts first)

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

Positive or negative experience associated with a particular pattern of psychological activity

Question 2

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 2

A theory which says that a stimulus simultaneously trigger activity in autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain

Question 3

Two factor theory (schachter and singers)

Answer 3

Theory that emotions are inferences about the causes of physiological arousal

Question 4

Which brain structure plays a special role in producing emotions such as fear?

Answer 4

Amygdala

Question 5

What is appraisal?

Answer 5

An evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus

Question 6

Fast pathway

Answer 6

Goes from thalamus directly to the amygdala

Question 7

Slow pathway

Answer 7

Thalamus to cortex and then to amygdala

Question 8

Who mapped out the slow and fast pathways?

Answer 8

Joseph LeDoux

Question 9

Emotion regulation

Answer 9

Use of cognitive and behavioral strategies to influence ones emotional experience

Question 10

Reappraisal

Answer 10

Changing one’s emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion-eliciting stimulus

Question 11

Who worked on monkeys and found the importance of the amygdala?

Answer 11

Kluver and bucy

Question 12

Emotional expression

Answer 12

An observable sign of an emotional state

Question 13

Universal hypothesis

Answer 13

Suggests that emotional expressions have same meaning for everyone

Developed by Charles Darwin

Question 14

What are the 6 universal emotions?

Answer 14

Anger
Disgust
Fear
Happiness
Sadness
Surprise

Question 15

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 15

Suggests that emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify

Question 16

Display rules

Answer 16

Norms for the control of emotional expression

Question 17

Motivation

Answer 17

The purpose for or psychological cause of an action

Question 18

Hedonic principle

Answer 18

The claim that people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

Question 19

What is drive?

Answer 19

An internal state caused by physiological needs

Question 20

What does the orexigenic signal tell your brain to do?

Answer 20

Switch hunger on

Question 21

What does the an anorexigenic signal tell your body to do?

Answer 21

Turn hunger off

Question 22

Morality-salience hypothesis

Answer 22

The prediction that people who are reminded of their own morality will work to reinforce their cultural worldviews.

Question 23

Intrinsic motivation

Answer 23

A motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding

Question 24

Extrinsic motivation

Answer 24

A motivation to take actions that lead to reward

Question 25

Approach motivation

Answer 25

A motivation to experience a positive outcome

Question 26

Avoidance motivation

Answer 26

A motivation not to experience a negative outcome was

Question 27

One way to understand and categorize the range of emotions possible in the human experience is to group them according to similarity in a kind of map. This is known as….

Answer 27

Multidimensional scaling

Question 28

What area of the brain is primarily responsible for receiving signals of hunger?

Answer 28

The hypothalamus