emotion Flashcards
What are the seven most agreed upon emotions?
Anger, joy, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise, and contempt
Why do we have emotions?
They organize the brain, shows others reactions, and gives meaning
What are the three parts of the emotions?
Arousal, Behavior, and Conscious Experience
James Lange Theory of Emotion
We experience arousal, then name the emotion
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
We have a perception of a stimulus, then arousal and emotions
Schachter and Singer Theory of Emotion
Perception leads to arousal, then a cognitive label, then we experience the emotion
Zajonc, Ledoux, and Lazarus theory
it is the idea that there is a low road and a high road in our brain. when we are having an emotional response to something we take the low road, because it involves less thinking (no cortex). a fancier way to put it is they believed that not all emotional responses involve cognition, that memories, expectations, and interpretations always influence our emotional responses
What are the physiological expressions of emotion?
facial expressions, quickened heart rate, flushed face, in the brain neurological firing, etc.
What are the differences of the two hemispheres of the brain?
The left side: logical, linear, linguistics (associated with positive emotions)
The right side: non-linear, spontaneous, context, and disciphering nonverbals (associated with negative emotions)
what portion of the brain does disgust activate?
the insula
physiology of fear
fear activates hormones like adrenaline
physiology of joy
joy is addictive, and boosts endorphins and dopamine
where do we learn emotional facial expressions from?
we naturally express our emotions through facial expressions, such as smiling
what is emotional intelligence and why is it important?
emotional intelligence is the ability to name emotions and then use and take charge of them. it is important to be in understand emotions in order to maintain our social relationships.
how do early childhood experiences impact our emotional intelligence? especially regarding attachment?
we can only express what we know, so what we see from our caregivers or other environmental factors are what we learn as children. this highly impacts our attachment styles, as seen in the rat case study.
