Emotions

Question 1

James-Lange theory-

Answer 1

your body feels it before your emotions do

= Stimulus-Arousal-Emotions (feel sorry because you cry. Afraid because we tremble)

Question 2

-Cannon-Bard theory-

Answer 2

when something happens, you feel the emotions and respond at the same time
=Stimulus-Arousal/Emotion

Question 3

Schater-Singer theory

Answer 3

• your stimulated, produce a physical reaction but a specific reaction (cognitive label) then you react
  =Stimulus- Arousal/Cognitive- Emotion

Question 4

misattribution of arousal

Answer 4

=Feeling a certain emotion but not understanding why you have that emotion

Question 5

White et al. (1981) study

Answer 5

=Men running in place for 15 or 120 seconds and watch a video of an attractive vs unattractive woman they were going to meet then asked how attracted they were to them.

Question 6

“hedonic treadmill”

Answer 6

People stay at the same level of happiness/unhappiness that they started off with no matter what temporarily happened

Question 7

EEA is….

Answer 7

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness

Question 8

Disgust-

Answer 8

avoid disease

Question 9

Sadness-

Answer 9

seek social support

Question 10

Sexual arousal-

Answer 10

romantic partner

Question 11

Love-

Answer 11

maintain a relationship

Question 12

Gratitude-

Answer 12

reciprocal altruism- do something back for someone else

Question 13

Maner, Rouby, & Gonzaga (2008) study

Answer 13

= Have people write a memory of being happy or being in love and then had them looking at a pcture of the opposite sex. They found that those who wrote about love looked at the picture spent less time.

Question 14

Becker et al. (2006) study

Answer 14

=example of how we perceive emotions of others
=Looking at reaction times on how we perceive faces
=*Much more likely to associate males with mean faces and females with happy faces.