Chapter 8: Emotion And Motivation Flashcards
Emotion
Short-term state that includes unique subjective experiences and bodily activity that prepares people for action
Feelings
- Hard to describe
- Studied carefully by measuring how close people say one feeling is to another
Appraisals
Conscious/unconscious feelings about the emotionally important parts of a trigger or event
Action tendencies
Ready to do a certain set of actions that are related to emotions
James-Lange theory
Stimuli trigger activity in the ANS which in return produces an emotional experience in the brain
Cannon-Bard theory
Thought emotions occurred at the same time as, but independently of, physiological activity
Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer’s two-factor theory
Stimuli triggers a general state of physiological arousal, which then is interpreted as a specific emotion
Amygdala
Plays an important role in emotion; threat detector
The Fast Pathway
Thalamus —> Amygdala
(Stimulus) (Experience of fear)
The Slow Pathway
Thalamus —> Cortex —> Amygdala
(Stimulus) (Experience of fear)
Emotional Expression
Observable sign of an emotional state (facial expressions, voice)
Universality hypothesis
All emotional expressions mean the same thing to all people in all places at all times
Facial feedback hypothesis
Emotional expressions can make you feel the emotional experience they represent
Deceptive expression
We can control (to some extent) our expression of emotion
Lying
Telling lies affect verbal and nonverbal behaviour
Display rule
A standard for the appropriate expression of emotion
Motivation
Internal causes of purposeful behaviour
Drives
Internal state generated by physiological needs