Emotions Flashcards
Cognition
representations of knowledge, thought, beliefs and processes by which these representations are acquired and manipulated
affects
general term for the entire range of feeling states
preferences
subjective responses to people, objects or events
mood
chronic, non-specific feeling states
emotions
specific, transient feeling states
Paul Ekman
suggested that there are a lot of emotions experienced, but some are more fundamental than others. Basic emotions result in distinct facial expressions which are easy to recognise
6 Basic emotions
happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise, anger
Dimentional models
suggest that we are always in some state, and the label we put on the emotional state depends on the culture and situation.
What does the emotion we feel depend on - according to the dimensional model?
Whether the situation is positive or negative, and how aroused we are
Sshacter and Singer’s Two-factor theory
suggests that first there is an awareness of unexplained arousal, second there is an interpretation of the arousal.
Misattribution
attributing arousal to the wrong cause
Appraisal theories
emotions are pure attributions
Content effects
Effects that are related to what we are feeling - happy thoughts will come to minds easily when we are happy.
Affect-infusion model (Forgas, 1995)
predicts that affect infusion occurs only where people process information in an open and constructive manner that involves active elaboration of stimulus details and information from memory.
What are the four ways of processing information about each other?
- Direct access - directly accessing schemas or judgements stored in memory
- Motivated processing - they form a judgement on the basis of specific motivations to achieve a goal or repair an existing mood
- Heuristic processing - relying on various cognitive short-cuts
- Substantive processing - deliberately constructing a judgement from a variety of informational sources
