Emotion

Question 1

what is emotion?

Answer 1

Emotion is a feeling you have inside yourself that comes from something happening either within or outside of yourself.

Question 2

what are the four components of the emotion?

Answer 2

1. physiological.
2. Cognitive, feeling
3. Physical, Behavioural
4. Emotional, behavioural

Question 3

explain each of the four components of emotion.

Answer 3

1. Physiological part of changes in bodily arousal. I.e: heart rate, temperature, and breathing.
2. Cognitive, feeling is subjective appraisal. We interpret the stimuli.
3. Physical, behavioural is the expression of the motion, verbally and nonverbally. For example, smiling, frowning, whining, laughing.
   Body expressions- we read other pol’s body language.
4. emotional, behavioral- keeping the emotion present (happiness) or removing it (sadness)

Question 4

what is the universality hypothesis about emotion? and the six basic emotions?

Answer 4

Emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone. - Darwin

• Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise

Question 5

what are the ways to measure emotion– detecting lies. 1,2 and 3 ways

Answer 5

1. Behavioural displays of the emotion- facial expressions
2. Self-reports of emotion. - sometimes inaccurate
3. Psychophysiological reactions.- face electromyography, heart rate.

Question 6

what are the functions of emotion?

Answer 6

Cognitive functions, behavioural functions, social functions