Emotions Flashcards
Phychological arousal
beating heart
Appraisal
At least im here
Subjective experience
Fear and anxiety
Emotion
Intense affective state
Subjective
Consciously experienced
Short lived
Response to something
Influences behaviour
Feeling = experience of emotion
Mood
Affective state
Diffuse experience
Long lived
Less intense than emotion
Not in response to something typically (could precipitate a mood though)
Tends to influence our behavuour (less obviously tham emotion)
Not always conscious
Theories of emotion
Rely on a
stimulus - emotional response - physiological response
Stimulus - physiological response - emotional repsonse
Stimulus - physiological & emotional response -
Common sense view
(william james)
Stimulus - emotional response - physiological response
James - Lang theory
Stimulus - physiological response - emotional response
James Lang Theory Support
Facial Feedback Analyss
Forcing someone to smile or frown influence how they perceive a joke
James Lang Theory Criticism
Blushing after embarrassment
People often respond physiologically after the emotion
We arent always aware of our physiological changes
Other events cause physiological reaction (ex standing up from a chair)
More emotions we have than body reactions (ex faster heartbeat to mannnnny emotions)
Canon Bard Theory
Stimulus - (independent of eachother) physiological & emotional response
Canon Bard Theory Supoort
People who are quadriplegic still experience a range of emotions
Canon Bard Theory Criticism
Those emotions are not as intense after quadriplegic
Schachter Singer Two Factor Theory
(how can two people have different responses to the same stimulus)
Stimulus -> psychological response AND cognitive label -> emotional response
You can mis interpret cognitive label
Ex men walking over scary bridge attributed heart rate to attractive researcher
Mis attribution of arousal
Schachter Singer Two Factor Theory Criticism
Fundamental assumption is that we have few responses physiologically - and that’s why the cognitive label is important
We do have unique body reactions to emotions
Criticism of all theories
We can be scared of something and not know what cause it (stimulus)
There is some unconscious psychological processing as well
Lazarus’s cognitive mediational theory
Stimulus ->
Appraisal of the stimulus->Cognitive interpretation -> Emotional response
Appraisal -> Evaluation of the emotion relevant to the stimulus (ie is this scary?)
Can occur unconsciously
Ledoux’s fast and slow routes
Jump scare
Thalamus
- Sends signal to Amygdala ->Emotion
- Send signal to cortex (same time) ->Updates
amygdala->Emotion
Emotional regulation in the brain
Vision and fear response
Signals cross (right eye signal to left brian)
Damage to one side of amygdala showed different fear responses based of what side the stimulus was seen from
Human example
Left amygdala still processed even though stimulus was left
SO
If we see something but our amygdala is damaged there is no emotional response
If we do not see something but out amygdala is intact we can have an emotional reaction
Amygdala is responsible for appraisal of the stimulus
Emotions & the brain
Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus,
Thalamus
Connecting amygdala & cortex
Hypothalamus
More detail under stress
CNS and endocrine system
Hippocampus
Integrating emotional experience with cognition
Memories - recall
Amygdala
Responsible for our emotional lives, particulariu responds to fear/anxiety stimuli
Basolateral complex - bundle of nerves on the outer part of the amygdala
- Pairing emotional with a memory // classical conditioning
Context can modulate the activation of the amygdala (ex holding love ones hand turns off)
Central nucleus
- Connected to the hypothalamus and the endocrine system
- Coordinates bodily reactions to the stressful stimuli helps prepare the body for fight flight
Sympathetic NS
No surprise that it is involved in anxiety/mood disorders (depression, bipolar)
Seven universal emotions
Happy, Sad, Anger, Disgust, Contempt, Surprise, Fright
Other emotions show universality
Emotions shows in
Face, body language, vocalization
Gather info from various sources^
Context in which we experience emotion matters
Culture influences
Cute agression
an urge to squeeze, bite, or pinch something cute like a young animal or a human baby without any desire to cause them harm
