Emotions

Question 1

Ekman

Answer 1

6 primary emotions
Surprise
Fear
Sadness
Anger
'Appiness
Disgust
? SAD FAS-- sad michael fassbender

Question 2

Ekman emotions

Answer 2

• 6
• SAD FAS
• each emotion has 3 components
  1. subjective- cortical experience
  2. physiological-visceral changes
  3. associated behaviour- skeletal changes

Question 3

James-Lange theory of emotions

Answer 3

• perception of a stimulus leads to bodily changes

- the peripheral responses feedback to the brain via the thalamus and lead to a perception of the emotion

Question 4

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 4

-facial movements lead to different emotional perceptions

Question 5

Temperature and emotion

Answer 5

• anger raises temperature
• fear and disgust lower temperature
• sadness also increases heart rate weirdly

Question 6

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 6

• on perception of a stimulus, the thalamus coordinates signal to the cortex leading to a conscious experience
• the thalamus also sends signal to hypothalamus leading to physiological changes
• the thalamus is cardinal in emotional appraisal

Question 7

Schachter-Singer labelling theory

Answer 7

• on perception of a stimuli, generalised arousal takes place. This is then interpreted as positive or negative and labelled appropriately according to situational cues
• also called 2 factor theory or juke-box theory
• if a label is not found then negative arousal occurs e.g boredom

Question 8

Lazarus cognitive appraisal theory

Answer 8

• appraisal precedes affective reaction

- personal valuation of a situation affects the experience of the environment

Question 9

Roseman and Scherer

Answer 9

-proposed 8 cognitive appraisal dimensions to distinguish emotional understanding