Chapter 11 Flashcards
What drives behavior?
Affect: the experience of feeling or emotion. Involves arousal or bodily responses to lived experiences produced by the nervous system. Causes emotion and motivation
What is emotion?
A mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behaviour
What are the three components of emotion?
Biological capacity, cognitive processes, socio-cultural shaping
What do researchers exploring the biological aspects of emotional attend to
Facial expressions, brain regions and circuits, and the automatic nervous system
What is the universal recognition of primary emotions?
Facial expressions
What are the six primary emotions?As well as the three controversial additions
Scared, angry, sad, happy, disgusted, and shocked.
Contempt, pride, and shame.
The functions of facial expressions?
Express internal feelings as well as influence our internal feelings or emotional states
What is the facial feedback hypothesis
The movement of our facial muscles can trigger corresponding emotions
Which side of the brain stronger identifies emotions?
The right side of the brain
what are secondary emotions?
Emotions which are specific to certain cultures or which depend on individual cognitive complexity.
Sprout from primary emotions
Do you cognitive interpretations or appraisals allow us to experience?
How much larger and more complex set of secondary emotions
A.k.a. as we mature we develop more complex emotions
Which is quicker in the brain: primary emotions or secondary emotions
Secondary emotions are slower because the pathways are more complex. Primary emotions take the quick path. Primary emotions go through the frontal cortex
What are compound emotions?
Emotions constructed by combining primary emotions.
Example disgustedly surprised, happily disgusted, happily surprised
What are six common nonverbal communicators.
Hint body language
Proxemics or the rules about the appropriate use of personal space. Body appearance. Body positioning and movement. Gestures. Facial expressions. And paralanguage or clues to identify or emotions contained in our voices
What is the role of attributions, beliefs, expectations, and perceptions in our experience of emotion?
Hint Schachter and Singer 1962
The experience of emotion depends on both physical arousal and cognitive interpretations of that arousal
Example there is a bodily response to a threat it is interpreted and then comes fear. Somebody sees a dog, they think that it could attack them, and then they feel fear.
This opposes the idea of seeing the dog, feeling fear, and then the body response