Emotions

Question 1

When do we feel emotion?

Answer 1

In the absence of reason?

Question 2

What guides our capacity to reason?

Answer 2

Passions and emotions

Question 3

Plato and emotions?

Answer 3

Irrational

Question 4

Zeno and emotions?

Answer 4

Useless and should be controlled by reason

Question 5

Spinoza and emotions?

Answer 5

Useful, they are part of our natural striving

Question 6

Freud - Where are emotions expressed and repressed?

Answer 6

The unconscious

Question 7

Freud - What shapes the unconscious?

Answer 7

Social experience, especially during childhood

Question 8

Freud - Why do people repress their instinctual urges?

Answer 8

to conform to society or they are punished

Question 9

Darwin - Where do emotions come from?

Answer 9

Biologically determined and universal to human culture

Question 10

Darwin - Why do we need emotions?

Answer 10

Need for survival

Question 11

Ekman - What are the 6 basic universal emotions?

Answer 11

Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise

Question 12

What is somatic theory of emotion?

Answer 12

Body produces emotion then the mind becomes aware

Question 13

What is the two factor theory?

Answer 13

Physical arousal and interpretation of the arousal

Question 14

What is weak social constructionism?

Answer 14

limited range of natural emotions, emotions are to some degree inherent or innate

Question 15

What is strong social constructionism?

Answer 15

Emotions are entirely product of sociocultural processes. Entirely learnt and contextual

Question 16

Neuroscience and emotion?

Answer 16

Reason and emotion are connected. Useful biological responses and socially created by embodying cultural norms and values