Emotions Flashcards
What are the two theories of emotions?
 they are irrational and stop our decision-making process or they help rationality
Explain what happened to Phineas Gage
 he was hit with an iron bar in his pre-frontal cortex, and he was once irrational person, and then became quite irrational and emotional due to his inability to control them
What is the somatic marker hypothesis?
Different hormonal and biochemistry states are detected by different parts of the brain.
However, emotional states can occur, even if changes haven’t occurred in the body
As-If loop
Also emotions don’t have to be
What is James Lang Effay?
We are scared because we run
What is Schachter and singers emotion theory?
It’s actually our interpretation of body signals that determines how we feel about the situation
Define ekman’s theory
 there are six basic emotions, surprise, anger, sadness, happiness, fear and discuss, and he argues that they are universal based on his studies in Papua New Guinea, and even blind individuals were able to detect emotions
What do tooby sbd cosmides think about emotions
Our responses involve cognitive behaviour element and not just processing one thing at a time
What kind of emotions lead to?
Differences in goals, priorities information, gathering attention and behaviour
How can fear impact of behaviour?
Depending on the nature of the fact, different behaviours might rise, such as fight flight or freeze.  And oven needs are down regulated such as hunger, being less important. Now that I need to plan my next move..
You may become more focused and attend to sounds that you usually wouldn’t because you’re in a heightened state of fear
Heart rate increase or decrease, depending on the situation and reflexes may kick in
What is relationship jealousy?
 It’s an adaptive solution to biological problem, which alerts to fret
- Fear of infedidekity.
- Fear of abandonment. 
Describe the sex differences in jealousy
 mend to have more sexual jealousy and therefore may become more aggressive or likely to want to please. The woman where is women become more emotionally,
Overall, there is no gender difference in the frequency or the magnitude of jealousy
Buss again, found that it only differed between sexual and emotional as 83% of women found emotional, infidelity more upsetting, compared to 40% of men, and 60% of men found sexual infidelity more upset compared to 17% of women
What kind of people do men and women get jealous of?
Men become more jealous of other men with resources, and become more jealous of other women who are deemed more physically attractive
What are 2 criticisms of jealousy research?
1. There is force choice on the like scale 
2. it neglect same-sex couples
How do men and women behave differently during jealousy
 meant hide and violence and shower money
Women are more likely to use their appearance or manipulative. Behaviours 
What are other methods of jealousy?
 choosing more likely to use gossip and then calling behaviours, and as you get older, people are often likely to disrupt other friendships
