Emotions

Question 1

T or F: Is there an assumption that emotions are universal?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

How many basic emotions did Darwin believe in?

Answer 2

4

Question 3

How many emotions do present scientists say there are?

Answer 3

6 universal emotions

Question 4

What are the 6 universal emotions?

Answer 4

• Happy
• Sad
• Surprise
• Disgust
• Fear
• Anger

Question 5

What are two contributing factors to emotions?

Answer 5

Nature and Nurture

Question 6

T or F: are cultural interpretations of emotions different?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Sociologist belive that . . .

Answer 7

Everyone is socialized into what we percieve emotions to be.
- They are embedded into our ideologies

Question 8

T or F: we are taught how to associate our emotions and link them to reaction.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Three aspects of socializing emotions:

Answer 9

1. How and when
2. What you are feeling
3. Learned behaviour

Question 10

How and when:

Answer 10

We are socialized into how to express our emotions, and when to respond.

Question 11

What you are feeling:

Answer 11

We are handed concepts of emotions which create bodily sensations and patterns.

Question 12

Learned behaviour:

Answer 12

Our understandings of appropriate ways to deal with emotion are informed by cultural and social contexts.

Question 13

Are emotions behavioural (cultural) or biological?

Answer 13

Both!

Question 14

What are the two types of emotional approaches?

Answer 14

Innate, and constructionist approach

Question 15

Who believes emotions are innate?

Answer 15

Darwin

Question 16

Who believes emotions are constructed?

Answer 16

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

Question 17

Innate/materialistic approach:

Answer 17

Believes emotions are “material” things.
- universal and adaptive (adapt to environment)
- influenced by culture, but individuals mainly “cope with emotions”.

Question 18

Constructed emotions:

Answer 18

Emotions are not hard wired, universal, or automatic reactions to the world.
- they are concepts through which the brain perceives and predicts.
- the concept and/or labels of emotions allow our brain to comprehend the world.
- emotions are concepts used to interpret bodily reactions.

Question 19

Emotions feel innate because . . .

Answer 19

We need them to make sense of the world, if we do not believe they are innate you are unable to perceive what you believe.

Question 20

How do anthropologists define emotions?

Answer 20

Muscle movements, hormonal reactions, and cultural contexts

Question 21

T or F: can emotions be disconnected from their cultural and social contexts?

Answer 21

False: they’re intergrated within our everyday lives (birth to death).