Emotion Flashcards
includes physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
emotion
experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to stimuli, 1st is a physical change 2nd is emotion
James-Lange Theory of Emotion
making the facial expression corresponding to a particular emotion can make a person feel that emotion
facial feedback of emotion
stimuli simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion
cannon-bard Theory of Emotion
to experience emotion one first must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
Schachter/Singers Two factor theory of emotion
emotion discussed is fear a stimulus happens, your heart pounds, you immediately feel fears then the cognitive label
Zajonic
all ___ feel different but all have the same response from the ____ ____ ____
emotions, sympathetic nervous system
machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies, ineffective
polygraph/ lie detector
what looks for perspiration, cardiovascular, breathing changes?
polygraph/ lie detector
females are ___ likely to show emotion, so they can ___ cues on emotion of others
more, recognize
who found how many emotions we have
Carol Izzard
How many emotions do we have
10
who found how many cultural universal facial expressions
Paul ikman
how many cultural universal facial expressions do we have
6
what are the cultural universal facial expressions
joy/happiness sad anger surprised fear disgust
what varies among cultures, ex clapping in us v china
hand gestures
purpose is to keep us safe, instinctual, amygdala
fear
scared as a result of own experience or observation
learned fear
fears that fall outside of the average range, disrupt ability to cope
phobia
varies from person to person, based on things you can’t control
anger
emotional release
catharsis
releasing aggressive energy through action or fantasy, relieves aggressive urges
catharsis hypothesis
perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
ex getting a car and happy then someone else gets a mustang
relative deprivation
peoples tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
feel-good, do-good phenomenon