Emotion Lecture Flashcards
What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
Emotions are interpretations of physiological responses and arousal comes before emotions
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Emotions and arousal occur at the same time and emotion does not cause arousal and visa versa
What is the two factor theory of arousal?
Emotions are made up of physical arousal and cognitive appraisal
What is a spillover effect?
Interpreting physiological arousal for emotional arousal
Who proposed that priming one stimulus influences how we feel about a subsequent stimulus?
Zajonc
Who proposed that cognitive appraisal sometimes happens without awareness and that cognitive appraisal defines emotional responses?
Lazarus
What is the fear center of the brain?
amygdala
Define the two pathways for fear stimuli
High road (visual/audio --> thalamus --> cortex-->amygdala) Low road (visual/audio --> amygdala --> thalamus)
What are complex emotions?
memories, expectations, interpretations
What is reappraisal?
Consciously changing interpretations of a stimulus or stressor
Which emotion tends to “pop out” of a crowd and why?
Angry
What are the six primary emotions?
happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise
How did people communicate in prehistoric times?
with facial expressions
What serves as a universal language across cultures?
Facial expressions
Which cultures encourage individual emotion expression, and which encourage adjustment of emotional states to others?
Individualistic cultures
collective cultures
Which part of the world expresses emotion with the mouth, and which part of the world expresses emotion with the eyes?
Americans use mouth and Asians use eyes
Which emotion is triggered by the fight or flight response?
Anger
What is catharsis?
aggressive action or fantasy enables emotional release.
Which emotion colors everything we experience?
Happiness
What are traits of happy people?
wold seen as safer, more decisive and confident, earn more money, less likely for divorce.
What is the feel-good do-good phenomenon?
A mood-boosting experience makes people more likely to do other good deeds.
What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?
tendency to judge stimuli in comparison with our past experiences.
What is relative deprivation?
Believing that we are worse off than people we compare ourselves to.
What six factors is happiness related to?
High self esteem
Being optimistic, outgoing, agreeable
Having close, positive, long lasting relationships.
Having work and leisure that engages one’s skills
Having a religious faith
Sleeping well and exercising
