Emotion

Question 0

What is Ekmans decision tree?

Answer 0

Ekmans decision tree helps us decide which emotion we are feeling, by our heart rate and skin temperature.

Question 1

Ekman and Friesman identified 6 base emotions. What are they?

Answer 1

Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise.

Question 2

What is the pattern theory?

Answer 2

Encounter, bringing about a specific physiological arousal and overt behaviours, leading to a experience of emotion.

Question 3

What is cognitive theory?

Answer 3

Encounter, bringing a general physiological arousal, which we cognitively appraise, electing the emotion we experience.

Question 4

How do we detect others emotions?

Answer 4

We detect others emotions using facial expressions, body language and tone of voice. This is controlled by the Amygdala.

Question 5

What does Bandura show about aggression?

Answer 5

Bandura shows that aggression is often imitative, white children influenced more by live rather than fake aggression.

Eg in person rather than aggression on TV or video games.

Question 6

How are phobias acquired?

Answer 6

Phobias are often acquired from parents, family, peers or social media. They may be the product of a single trauma and this may have a slight time delay. It can be negatively reinforced by avoidance. Get worse and worse by not standing up to it