Emotions Flashcards
Define the term ‘Emotions’
A relatively brief display of emotions as a response to events that have motivational relevance
List the 6 basic emotions
Disgust
Fear
Joy
Surprise
Sadness
Anger
What are the self conscious emotions?
Shame and Pride
What are the moral emotions?
Contempt and Empathy
What role does the brain stem have in the biology of emotions ?
Basic functioning
What role does the limbic system have in the biology of emotions?
Feeling
What role does the cerebral cortex have in the biology of emotions?
Thinking
What role does the amygdala have in the biology of emotions?
Expression of conditional emotional responses.
Where is the focal point of the amygdala located in terms of the biology of emotions
Between sensory systems and systems for autonomic and hormonal components of conditioned emotional responses.
What role does the Orbitofrontal cortex have in the biology of emotions?
Receives information from sensory systems and regions of the frontal lobe that control behaviour.
What does the Orbitofrontal cortex communicate with when processing emotions?
The limbic systems
What did Zelenski and Larson find were humans most common emotion?
Happiness (5x more than sadness)
What two routes did Ledoux identify by which the conditioning of fear can occur?
Thalamus to amygdala
Thalamus to visual/auditory cortex
What did Strack et al find when participants held a pen in their mouth while watching cartoons?
Participants rated the cartoons as funnier due to forced smile.
What was Schacter and Singer’s Independent variable?
What participants were told the effects of an adrenaline shot were.
What did Schacter and singer find?
Those told wrong effect of shot were more susceptible to mimicking the emotions of others around them, while those told the true effects were unaffected.
What happened to participants who crossed a wobbly bridge.
Participants fear led to higher arousal, and higher ratings of physical attraction to the target person.
What were Darwin’s theory of emotions.
Emotions are evolved, and are universally expressed and recognised.
What did Freud believe humans common state was?
Unhappiness
How does the James-Lange theory explain emotions.
A stimulus causes us to interpret the situation, leading to a unique pattern of autonomic arousal to experience an emotion.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotions?
Suggests that the physiological response for all emotions are the same.
What is Schacter and Singers’ two factor theory of emotion?
Emotions are determined jointly by perception of physiology and cognitive assessment of the situation.
