Emotion and Mood Flashcards
What are the 6 basically programmed primary emotions
Happiness Sadness Fear Anger Disgust Surprise
What is Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
There are 8 basic emotions grouped in 4 pairs of opposites
Joy/sadness
Affection/Disgust
Anger/Fear
Expectation/surprise
All other emotions are derived from combinations of this array
What are the different components of the process of emotion
Appraisal (e.g. am I in trouble or am I ok)
Arousal (we encounter something. Our body has a bodily reaction. This physiological reaction causes emotion)
Expression
Action Readiness (tendency of an emotion to serve as an impulse for an action specific to the emotion being experienced)
What gives an object emotional impact
IS its relevance to one’s concerns
What is the James-Lange theory
What is the downside of this theory
Our emotions are based on our physiological changes (e.g. we feel sad because we cry)
Spinal cord injury patients still experience emotions therefore there must be other pathways
What is the Canon-Bard Theory
Physiological changes and subjective feeling of emotional experience as a response to a stimulus are separate and independent
What is Schachter’s two-factor theory
Drawbacks
Emotion depends on how arousal is interpreted by the person experiencing it
Not take into account for other potential sources of emotionally relevant information which may affect one’s judgment (e.g. awareness of facial expression)
What are voluntary facial movements controlled by
Pyramidal motor system (this includes the motor cortex)
What are involuntary facial movements (e.g. genuine smile) controlled by
Extrapyramidal motor system, which depends on subcortical areas; brain damage can disrupt either system
Role of the amygdala in emotion
receives visual, auditory, taste and smell info and uses it to make a quick and rough evaluation about the potential harm or benefit of a stimulus
Why does fear activate the amygdala
Involved in the autonomic, preconscious detection of threat and danger in the environment, to quickly act (fight or flight)
Role of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in emotion regulation
Involved in form of attention that serves to regulate both cognitive and emotional processing
When is there Flat or blunted affect
What symptom does it have
Can accrue across different diagnoses including
Primary depression
Schizophrenia
Parkinson’s
It is a symptom that shows lack of emotional responsibility in facial and vocal expression
What is Inappropriate or incongruous affect
Occurs across diagnoses but is most typically seen in the context of psychoses where there are symptoms of disorganisation of thought and associated affect (e.g. laughing when hearing bad news)
What functional abnormalities do those with mood disorders have
Abnormalities in corticolimbic circuit
