Emotions Flashcards
First appears during the mid-16th century
Emotions
“To stir up”
Emouvoir
Latin meaning of emotions
“to set things in motion”
Three components of emotions
Subjective experience, physiological response, expressive response
Emotions can be:
A feeling, response, motivation
ABCs of emotions
Action, Biological Arousal, Cognitive labels
Four basic emotions
Glad (joy), mad (anger), sadness (sad), fear (scared)
Our nervous system develops physical reactions as we experience various events. The stimulus leads to the arousal that leads to the emotion.
James-Lange Theory of Emotion (William James and Carl Lange)
The experience of emotions and physiological reactions are simultaneous. The stimulus leads to both arousal and emotion.
Cannon-Bard Theory (Walter Cannon and Philip Bard)
Reasoning plays an important role in processing and experiencing emotions. Event - Arousal - Reasoning - Emotion
Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion (Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer)
Focuses on the role of physiological arousal as a primary factor in emotions; takes into account the cognitive aspect of the emotional reaction; event - arousal - cognitive labels - emotion
Schachter-Singer’s Two-Factor Theory
Emotion is the experience of changes in our facial muscles; changes in our facial muscles that cue our brains and provide the basis of our emotions.
Facial Feedback Theory
STOP meaning:
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Pull back, Practice/proceed
The ability to use your emotions to form an optimal relationship with yourself and others; capacity of recognizing our own feelings
Emotional intelligence
A professor of psychology and the president of Yale who developed the idea of EQ
Peter Salovey