Ch8 Flashcards
James-Lange Theory
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)
Emotion
Positive or negative experience associated with a particular pattern of psychological activity
Cannon-Bard Theory
A theory which says that a stimulus simultaneously trigger activity in autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain
Two factor theory (schachter and singers)
Theory that emotions are inferences about the causes of physiological arousal
Which brain structure plays a special role in producing emotions such as fear?
Amygdala
What is appraisal?
An evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus
Fast pathway
Goes from thalamus directly to the amygdala
Slow pathway
Thalamus to cortex and then to amygdala
Who mapped out the slow and fast pathways?
Joseph LeDoux
Emotion regulation
Use of cognitive and behavioral strategies to influence ones emotional experience
Reappraisal
Changing one’s emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion-eliciting stimulus
Who worked on monkeys and found the importance of the amygdala?
Kluver and bucy
Emotional expression
An observable sign of an emotional state
Universal hypothesis
Suggests that emotional expressions have same meaning for everyone
Developed by Charles Darwin
What are the 6 universal emotions?
Anger Disgust Fear Happiness Sadness Surprise
Facial feedback hypothesis
Suggests that emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify
Display rules
Norms for the control of emotional expression
Motivation
The purpose for or psychological cause of an action
Hedonic principle
The claim that people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain
What is drive?
An internal state caused by physiological needs
What does the orexigenic signal tell your brain to do?
Switch hunger on
What does the an anorexigenic signal tell your body to do?
Turn hunger off
Morality-salience hypothesis
The prediction that people who are reminded of their own morality will work to reinforce their cultural worldviews.
Intrinsic motivation
A motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding
Extrinsic motivation
A motivation to take actions that lead to reward
Approach motivation
A motivation to experience a positive outcome
Avoidance motivation
A motivation not to experience a negative outcome was
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….
Multidimensional scaling
What area of the brain is primarily responsible for receiving signals of hunger?
The hypothalamus
