Emotion Flashcards
what are emotions?
are sets of physiological responses, action tendencies and subjective feelings that adaptively engage humans to react to events of biological and/or individual significance.
Affect
Emotion
Mood
what are ranges of emotion?
what are the components of emotions?
Action ~ motor output
Autonomic activity
Conscious Experience
for behavior, emotions can be adaptive because:
- they allow “quick and dirty” judgment of situation/condition
- allow fast decisions on behavior
- mobilizes the body for action
- dispositions (approach vs. withdrawal)
- goal referenced: discrepancy or match of anticipated state and actual state
- social cues (nonverbal and empathy)
complex emotions are learned. What else are they?
- socially and culturally shaped
- often influenced by language
- combination of basic emotions expressed
- evolutionary
- mostly used in humans
- ontogenesis
ANS , SCR (skin conductance response) and SR (startle response) are apart of what?
Psychophysiological markers of emotion.
what does SCR involve?
During emotional arousal, activity of the sweat glands increases the electrical conductance of the skin surface
James (1890) proposed that for emotion, humans…
and their physiological body responses affects how they respond i.e. i am sweating, that makes me nervous.
what theory suggests that Emotions are the result of physiological body responses?
= Feedback from
the periphery
The James-Lange theory of emotion
what are the two assumptions of the James-Lange theory?
- deterministic relationship between bodily reactions and emotions
- no emotions are felt without bodily functions
what was the conclusion of Strack et al. (1988) study on Facial feedback hypothesis?
If there are not bodily responses, your brain will have a lower or no outcome of having an emotion. Facial mimicry affect the experienced emotions
what are the two assumptions of the James-Lange theory?
- deterministic relationship between bodily reactions and emotions
- no emotions are felt without bodily functions
what is another word for ‘mirroring’?
Embodied cognition
which theory challenges the James-Lange theory of emotion? What does it suggest?
The Cannon-Bard theory (Walter Cannon & Philip Bard, 1927) which suggests that response of the ANS is not specific to
which theory challenges the James-Lange theory of emotion? What does it suggest?
The Cannon-Bard theory (Walter Cannon & Philip Bard, 1927) suggests that response of the ANS is not specific to one emotion felt. Therefore, the ANS ignites the FoF response, mobilizing body’s resources to action during emotionally arousing situation.
The Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
Emotions result from two factors which unfold in parallel:
- physiological reponse
- cognition (mediates interpretation of physiological response to ext events)
The Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
Emotions result from two factors which unfold in parallel:
- physiological response
- cognition (mediates interpretation of physiological response to ext events)
what does the Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory of Emotion take into account that other emotion theories do not?
the social context because it looks at our bodily responses to external events.
