Emotion and mood Flashcards
components of an emotional response
- conscious feelings
- actions
- physiological arousal
- motivational programmes
Name 3 functions of emotion
- coordinates responces
- motivation
- helps solve adaptive behaviours
- ->cooperation, mating, avoiding predators
name 3 properties of basic emotions
innate, rapid onset, consistent across cultures
Ekmans 6 basic emotions
anger disguist fear joy sadness surprise
describe Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
puts emotions into 8 categorise, cone going downwards with decreasing intensity
shows opposites and blends
what parts of the body mediate emotion
peripheral autonomic endocrine motor
Is expressiveness universal?
yes but cultural differences
role of amygdala
learnt emotional responses, fear pleasure
James Langes theory
emotional is a cognitive response to info from periphery
Cannon Bard
physiological changes and emotional feelings = independant !
Schatler Siger
emotional felt then physiological arousal - person uses immediate environment to label the arousal
describe autism
repetitive behaviours, neurodevelopmental, pervasive, abnorm social interaction + communication
what causes autism
less mirror neurones in the INF frontal gyrus
describe psychopathy
abnormal emotional response, disturbed social interactions, dont learn from punishment, selfish dominant superficial cold