Emotion and Mental health

Question 1

What are the components of emotion?

Answer 1

Emotion is a subjective experience. 
thoughts / action tendencies
Cognitive appraisal
Internal bodily responses
Facial expressions

Question 2

What are the Ekman & Friesen basic emotional states?

Answer 2

All the following can be seen in facial expressions:
Happiness
sadness
anger
fear
suprise
disgust

Question 3

What was Homan’s theory

Answer 3

Veterans with spinal injury had greater loss of emotional intensity the higher up the spinal cord. This indicates that there is a relationship between emotion and cognition.

Question 4

what was James-Lange’s pattern theory of emotion?

Answer 4

an ENCOUNTER leads to PSYCOLOGICAL ARROUSAL, this leads to experience of EMOTIONS

Question 5

What was Schachter & Singer’s Cognitive Theory of emotion?

Answer 5

an Encounter –> Physiological arousal –> Cognitive Appraisal –> Experience of emotion

Question 6

what is an appraisal theory of emotion?

Answer 6

Encouter —> appraisal of encounter —>experience of emotion

Question 7

what is Ekman’s theory for functions of emotion?

Answer 7

facial expressions communicate a subjective state. Able to identify other people’s internal state. this is the same across cultures.

Question 8

describe the acquisition and regulation of emotions

Answer 8

The amygalda processes emotions in the brain (particularly fear)

Question 9

What is the process of social learning?

Answer 9

Observation
imitation
reinforcement
(learning of violence - in boys under 9 is most at risk)