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Experience

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Essential feature of all emotion

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Emotion

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Positive or generative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity

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Two Dimensions of emotion

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Arousal and valence

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Valence

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How “pleasant” (pleasure) or “adverse” (angry) an experience is

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Arousal

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How “exciting” or “drowsy” an experience is

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James-Lange Theory

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Stimuli trigger activity in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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Stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the ANS and emotional experience in the brain

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Two-factor theory

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Emotions are inferences about the causes of physiological arousal

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Criticism of two-factor theory?

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There is only one bodily reaction to ALL emotional stimuli…

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The amygdala

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Appraises/evaluates the situation

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Fast pathway of fear to the brain

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Thalamus to amygdala

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Slow acting fear pathway

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Thalamus to cortex to amygdala

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Emotional regulation

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Use of cognitive and behavioral strategies to influence one’s emotional experience

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Reappraisal

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

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5 universal emotions

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Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness

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Facial feedback hypothesis

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Theory that emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify

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Motivation

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Purpose for physiological cause for an action

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Experienced emotion

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Thing you actually feel

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Expressed emotion

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Emotion that you express

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Hedonic principle

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Notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

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Drive

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Internal state generated by departures from physiological optimality

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Instincts

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The faculty of acting in such a wat as to produce

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Drive reduction theory

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A theory that suggest that organisms are motivated to reduce their drives

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Intrinsic motivation

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Motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding

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Extrinsic motivation

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Motivation to take actions that LEAD to a reward

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Approach motivation

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Motivation to experience positive outcomes

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Avoidance motivation

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Motivation to not experience negative outcomes

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Loss aversion

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The tendency to care more about avoiding losses than about achieving equal-sized gains

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