Cognition And Emotion Flashcards
Two approaches to emotions:
Basic emotions approach
Dimensional approach
Why would Cognitive psychologists control lab studies?
To ignore emotional effects on cognitive tasks
Keep emotional state constant / calm unemotional state
Affect:
The experience of feeling or emotion
Emotion:
Brief but intense experience
Affective judgement:
A decision on what a person likes / dislikes
Watson and Clark’s 3 emotion systems:
Prototypic form of expression (facial)
Pattern of consistent autonomic changes
Distinct subjective feeling state
Emotion response systems:
Behaviour (facial expressions)
Physiological bodily response (heart rate)
Feeling (fear)
Basic emotions approach the big five emotions:
Anger Disgust Fear Happiness Sadness
What characteristics determine whether an emotion is a basic one?
Ekman: Distinct universal signals Distinct physiology Present in other primates Quick onset Brief duration Distinct thoughts, memories, images and subjective experience
Dimensional Approach:
Lang
Affect-grid - valence and arousal
IAPS stands for:
International Affective Picture System
A 9 point rating scale:
Self assessment manikin
Third dimension of IAPS image:
Dominance / control
Theories of emotion:
James-Lange theory
Cannon- Bard theory
Schachter and Singer (2 factor theory)
James-Lange Theory:
Stimulus, sensory perception, bodily changes (heart rate) particular emotion experience (fear)
Cannon-Bard Theory:
Arousal and subjective experience of an emotion (feeling) occur simultaneously
A Cognitive theory by…
Schachter and Singer
Arousal Interpretation theory, 2 factors essential for experience of emotion:
High physiological arousal
An emotional interpretation of that arousal
Schacter and Singer’s theory
Stimulus, sensory perception, general autonomic arousal, cognitive appraisals, particular emotional experience
Schacter and Singer’s Classic Study Findings:
Despite identical physiological response in adrenaline groups, the experience of emotion was influence by info previously given and the situation / context that the participant was in
Cognitive appraisal theory
Subjective experience of an emotion was the result of some interpretation (appraisal) of physiological arousal within a particular situational context
Smith and Lazarus’s 6 appraisal components
Primary appraisal: 1) motivational relevance 2) motivational congruence Secondary appraisal: 3) accountability 4) problem focused coping potential 5) emotion focused coping potential 6) future expectancy
Mood congruity effect:
Effect of mood on memory