Chapter 10: Emotion Flashcards
Affect
Either a discrete emotion or a longer-lasting state like moods/stress
Affective flexibility
Ability to process the relevance of various emotional stimuli depending on one’s current goals and motivation
Amygdala
Region of the brain related to fear processing among other emotions
Attentional blink
A phenomenon present in rapid serial visual stimuli presentation where a second salient stimulus goes unnoticed when presented between 150-450 ms after the first salient stimulus
Basic emotions
Emotions with unique characteristics, carved by evolution, and reflected through facial expressions
Complex emotions
Combinations of basic emotions that can be identified as evolved and long-lasting
Some can be socially learned
Core emotional systems
Any of 7 circuits common to higher animals that generate both emotional actions and autonomic changes that correspond
What are the 7 core emotional systems?
Seeking
Rage
Fear
Lust
Care
Grief
Play
Dimensional theories of emotion
State that emotions are fundamentally the same, but differ across certain dimensions (such as valence and arousal)
Emotions
An affective mental response to a stimuli
Includes a physiological response, behavioral response, and a feeling
Emotion generation
An unagreed-upon set of processes involving linguistic representations and memory
Emotion regulation
Both voluntary and involuntary processes deployed to handle an emotional response
Facial expressions
The nonverbal communication of emotions using the face
Fear conditioning
Form of learning where an US is used to attribute a CR to a CS, such as the rat study where they were trained to fear a light turning on after it was paired with a shock and a loud noise
Feeling
The sensation of touch and of conscious emotion
