Emotion and mental health

Question 1

What is mental health?

Answer 1

A sense of well-being, subjective and emotional. The absence of abnormality.

Question 2

What are the components of emotion?

Answer 2

• Subjective experience
• Internal bodily responses
• Thought/action tendencies
• Facial expression
• Cognitive appraisal

Question 3

How are emotions different to moods?

Answer 3

Emotions: reactive and short-lived

Moods: diffuse and persistant

Question 4

What are the basic emotional states as defined by Ekman and Friesen?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What was Hohman’s experiment?

Answer 5

Interviewed patients with spinal injuries to acertain their changess in intensity of experience.

Question 6

What did Ekman investigate?

Answer 6

Physiological differentiation of emotions.

Question 7

What is James-Lange’s pattern theory of emotion?

Answer 7

Encounter -> specific physiological arousal and overt behaviours -> experience of emotion

Question 8

What was Schechter and Singer’s cognitive theory of emotion?

Answer 8

Encounter -> general psychological arousal -> cognitive appraisal of arousal -> experience of emotion

Question 9

Where in the brain is emotion processed?

Answer 9

Amygdala