Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health Flashcards
emotion
a state of arousal involvig, facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appreaisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action
In defining emotion, what three things do psychologists focus on?
- Physicological changes in face, brain and body
- cognitive processes - interpretations of events
- cultural influences that shape ecperiences
Primary emotions
emotions considered to be universal and biologically based
Eg: fear, andger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust and contempt
Secondary emotions
emotions that are specific to certain cultures
What is the reason that Darwin believed that human facial ecpressions evolved?
allowed one to tell at a glance the difference between a friendly stranger and a hostile one
Why is pride most recently been argued to be a basic human emotion
adaptive function to motivate people to achieve and ecel and to signal status
facial feedback
the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being ecpressed
Why are there cultural and social limits to the universal readability of facial ecpressions?
- people are better at identifying emotions ecpressed in their own ethnic, nation or regional group than of foreigners
- within a culture, facial ecpressions can have different meanings depending on the situations
If one were to have a stroke and there was damage to reigions of the brain involved with the ecperience of discust, would they be about to feel discust
no, no emotional response to images and ideas = discusting
which regions of the brain are involved in impulses to approadh or withdraw?
prefrontal cortec
Right = withdraw or escape
Left = approach
Which part of the brain help us modify and control our feelings = regulation station
prefrontal cortec, loss of self if damaged
what role does the amygdala play in emotion
fear and anger
responsible for evaluation sensory info, fining emotional importance, making initial decisions to approach or withdraw
may be overrun by the a more accurate appraisal from the cortec
mirror neurons
brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes others carrying out an action: involved in empathy, imitation, and reading emotions
what two things must happen for mirror neurons to fire?
- recognize another person’s action
- when action is intentional rather than accidental
_____________ the spreading of an emotion from one person to another
mood contagion
when two people feel rapport with one another’s emiotions, nonverbal ignals, and posture, what will happen
more synchronized they become, the more cooperative they behave and cheerfull they feel
when stress causes strong emotion the autonomic nervous system sends out which hormones with what kind of response?
epinephrine and norepinephrine = arousal and alerness
pupils dialate, heart beats faster, blood sugar rises, breathing speeds up
which hormone in partiular provides that energy of emotion, ecitement
epinephrine
what is the success rate of highly trained professionals to detect a lie
54%
why do psychologists regard the polygraph test ts invalid?
because there are no physiological patterns of autonomic arousal specific to lying
what is the main problem with the lie detector?
it will falsely identify innocent people as having lied
describe the guilty knowledge test
multiple choice Q’s
one answer is relivant to the case others are neutral answers
if suspect’s phsicological resonses to relevant answers consistenly large then to the neurtal alternatives, investigator infer that the suspect is guilty
display rules
the social and culturall ules that reulater when, how and where a person may ecpress or suppress emotions
emotion work
ecpression of an emotion, often because of a role requirement, that a person does not really feel
