Emotions

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

latin: to move or to stir up
display of feelings
response is due to motivational relevance

Question 2

Name the 6 basic emotions?

Answer 2

anger
saddness
disgust
fear
joy 
surprise

Question 3

Emotions and evolution

Answer 3

Darwin
Human expressions have evolved-universally expressed and recognised
questionable because some emotions dont have clear expressions-guilt

Question 4

Name the three families of emotion

Answer 4

Basic emotions:evolved, universally expressed
moral emotions:contempt and empathy
self conscious emotions:shame and pride

Question 5

Zalenski and Larson experiment:

what did they do? what did they find?

Answer 5

To examine whether human kinds common mental state is unhappiness
82 uni students, 3 short questions, over a month
results: students on average were 5x happier than sad even when results were combined

Question 6

Biology of emotion

Answer 6

Is emotions innate?

neuroimaging support: there is differences in brain activity depending on emotions

Question 7

Amygdala

Answer 7

temporal lobe, infront of hippocampus
expression of conditional emotional responses
focal point: sensory systems, systems for behavioural, autonomic and hormonal components

damage: associated with lack of fear
2 routes can be conditioned
1: thalamus to hippocampus
2:thalamus to visual auditory cortex to amygdala

Question 8

Orbitiofrontal cortex

Answer 8

Top of frontal lobes
info from sensory systems and regions of frontal lobes
communicates with limbric system

damage: impaired peoples inhibition and self concern
connections of somantic states and appreciation of them are missing

Question 9

Facial feedback and hypothesis

Strack et al

Answer 9

hold pen in mouth> in lips conditions with teeth, or sucking position
asked to read a cartoon and rate how funny it was

results: those in lips conditions rated the cartoon funnier.
facial muscles were forming a smile
sucking position: prevented a smile

facial expressions can influence our feelings

Question 10

Botox

Answer 10

paralyses frown muscles

reading slowed when expression of evoked emotion would have required paralysed muscle

Question 11

Name the theories emotion

Answer 11

James lange
Schacter and singer
missattribution of arousal paradigm
canon bard theory

Question 12

James Lange:

Answer 12

emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events
stimulus>perception/interpretation>autonomic arousal>emotion

Question 13

Schacter and singer

Answer 13

emotions are determined jointly by perception of psychological and physical assessments of situations
adrenaline v’s placebo
angrier in placebo they didnt attribute physiological state to injection

Question 14

Misattribution of arousal paradigm

Answer 14

Dutton and aron
wobbly v’s stable bridge
afterwards they reported phsyical attractiveness towards target person
wobbly bridge: physiologically aroused and mis-attributed that as a attraction

Question 15

Cannon bard

Answer 15

Challenged James lange

stimulus>physiological repsonse
>emotional response
same physiological reactions for different emotions