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Chapter 8: Emotions Flashcards

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1
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Two features of emotions

A

Valence

Arousal

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2
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Valence

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Emotions are either positive or negative

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3
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Arousel

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Emotions are related to psychology activity

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4
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Multidimensional scaling

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Technique used to determine emotion circumflex

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5
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Flight or flight

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Sympathetic

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James Lange theory

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Stimulus triggers activity in body, which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain

See bear, hearts starts pumping, leg muscles contract, then experience fear

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Canon bard theory

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Emotion and physiological reaction occur at same time

Dog makes me feel afraid, and it makes my heart pound

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2 factor

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Stimulus triggers a general state of arousal in the body, which the mind then interprets as a specific emotion

Pounding heart + bear = fuck me

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9
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Universal hypnosis

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People in all countries can detect what you’re feeling

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10
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6 common emotions

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Happy 
Sad
Anger
Fear
Disgust 
Surprise
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11
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FFH

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Facial muscles send signals to our brains

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12
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Amygdala’

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THREAT DETECTOR

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Appraisal

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Evaluation of the emotion relevant aspects of a stimulus

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Reappraisal

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Changing ones emotional experience by changing the way one thinks about the emotion eliciting stimulus

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15
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Deception expression

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We can control some of our emotional expressions

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16
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4 methods of regulating expression

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Intensification

Deintensification

Masking

Neutralizing

17
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Intensification

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Exaggeration of expression

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Deintensification

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Muting your expressions

19
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Neautralizing

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Show no expression when you’re feeling something (poker face)

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Masking

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Showing a different emotion from what you’re feeling

21
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Sincere vs insecure expression

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Morphology, symmertry, duration, temporal patterning

22
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Duchanne smile

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:) actually happy

23
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Fast path

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Thalamus to amygdala

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Slow Path

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Thalamaus to the correct then amygdala

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