Emotions Flashcards
What are the components of emotions?
- conscious experience
- physiological arousal
- behavioural expression
What is the common sense view?
- feeling of emotion causes you to have an arousal (eg. your heart pounds because you are afraid)
What did William James propose in 1884?
bodily changes follow directly from the perception of the fact. ( response first than the interpretation of the response).
What is James Lange theory of emotion?
sight of oncoming stimulus leads to the arousal which then causes us to have an interpretation
-requires each emotion have unique pattern of autonomic responses
what is the facial feedback theory
sensory feedback from the expression contributes to the emotional feeling
What is the critique of the James Lange theory?
- autonomic responses are not differentiated
- context can also change emotion
- spinal injury doesn’t erase emotional experience
What is the Cannon Bard theory of 1920
arousal and emotions are simultaneous effects they both happen in response to the event. they don’t come one after another , they said only correlated no causal
Who proposed the two-factor theory
Schacter and Singer in 1962
What is the 2 factor theory
- physiological arousal is ambigious
- context shapes interpretation
- emotional experience=
physiological arousal (ambiguous)
cognitive appraisal ( informed by context)
What is the Suproxin study
shoot epinephrine into volunteers : elevated physiological arousal
change the context
- people record different emotional experience because the interpretation is different
What is the misattribution of arousal
we take ambigious physiological experiences and have different context interpretation : EXCITATION TRANSFER
what is excitation transfer
transfer of arousal onto another context
What is LeDoux’s Theory of emotion?
Amygdala plays a part in emotional learning and processing , 2 different routes to getting to an emotion. more primitive part of the brain that reads context.
Explain the 2 routes of emootion
event->appraisal->emotional response (differentiated but slow)-SCHATCHER
event->emotional response (fast but undifferentiated- LE DOUX)
incentive based theory of motivation
positive or negative emotion signals progress toward goal. (goal compared with current perception, the discrepancy between the two gives you an emotional state) emotions promote motivation towards goal, also signals momentum towards goal
