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Emotion is…

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psychologically interpreted; physiologically the same whether sad or happy

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Functions of Emotions

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1) adaptive
2) communicative
3) interpretative

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Function of Emotion: Adaptive

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support surivival; focus attention and energize actions

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Function of Emotion: Communicative

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-convey messages to others; able to infer about the internal states of others

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Function of Emotion: Interpretative

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provides color and meaning to life; helps us determine valence (positve or negative) of experience; determines context

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Components of Emotion

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1) physiological activation
2) conscious experiences
3) expressive behavioral responses

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Component of Emotion: Physiological activation

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autonomoic arousal; sympathetic activation —> increased HR

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Component of Emotion: Conscious Experience

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Interpretations of physiological arousal

-thoughts or judgements of feeling

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Component of Emotion: Expressive Behavioral Responses

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Physcial action in response to internal experiences; outward action in response to situation

If funny, laugh and fall over

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Do we experience physcial arousal first or emotion

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its complicated

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James-Lange Theory

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physcial arousal happens before emotional interpretation

emotional interpretatoin is in response to physiological response to stimulus

behavioral response provides interpretative feedback for physiological arousal

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Example of James-Lange Theory

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  1. Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus)
  2. increased HR; heart pounding (arousal)
  3. fear (emotion)
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Cannon Bard Theory

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an emotion arousing stimulus simutaneously triggers a physiological repsonse and a seubjective emotion expereinces

  • argues that physiogical expereinces are too similar to cause an emotional response
  • assumes that context and physiological arousal are processed simulatenously via different pathways
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Example of Cannon-Bard Theory

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Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus)

I simutaneously I

pounding heart (arousal) Fear (emotion)

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Schachter Singer Two Factor Theory

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Emotional experience comes from how we INTERPRET our physiological arousal

-emotion relies on our past experiences, perceptions, and interpretation of event

Two factors before emotion:

physical arousal and cognitve appraisal

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Schachter Singer Two Factor Theory Example

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Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus)

I I

cognitve label “im afraid” physiological response (pounding)

I I

fear (emotion)

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Spillover effect

what is it and is a part of what theory

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Schachter singer two factor theory

  • arousal states can spill over from one even to another influencing our response
    e. g having a bad day? unintentially take it on someone else
  • argues for infectious nature of emotional responses; jokes may seem more funnier in a crowd; ppl moods may rub off on us
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LeDoux Dual-Pathway

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some emotional reponse happen before or even seperate from our interpretations (fear responses happen quickly)

  • eomtional responses are the final step in a process that can follow two different pathways in our brain
    1. high road
    2. low road
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High road

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information travels from thalamus to cerebral cortex before going to the amygdala

-information is assessed before an emotional response is generated

THE THINKER

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Low road

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informatino goes directly from thalamus to amygdala

allows for faster response for danger

the doer

emotional response and action is generated before information is accessed

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Emotional expressions around the world

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many types of emotionale expressions around the world are considered universal even despite culture differences; still able to identify the emotion

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Six Basic emotional expressions

what are they, suggests what

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1) anger
2) fear
3) joy
4) supprised
5) disgusted
6) sad

people from all cultures are generally able to identfy six basic emotions because we all express them the same way

this suggests an evolutionary basis for emotional expression; before language facial expressions may have been used to convey messages; may also have adaptive component

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Facial Feedback Effect

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facial expressions can infleunce how we feel

contracting our facial muscles to make an emotional expression can trigger the corresponding emotional experience

smile through the pain

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