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Three Components of Emotion

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Cognition, Expression, Physiology

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Love Bridge

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Illustrates some of the primary issues in the study of emotion

Study 1: Two groups of subjects, males who just walked across a scary bridge or males who just walked across a less scary bridge

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Experiment 1: Love Bridge

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After crossing the scary bridge or the not scary bridge, the male subjects are approached by either a male or female experimenter. Subjects fill out questionnaires containing Thematic Apperception Test Picture. People are shown ambiguous pictures and asked to make up a story about the picture. After subjects filled out questionnaire, experimenter thanked them and offered to explain the study in more detail when they had more time, gives phone number to subject

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Results for Love Bridge Experiment

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Scary Bridge group (approached by female experimenter)

More sexual content in stories than non scary bridge group, 2.47 vs. 1.41

More attempts to contact experimenter
50% vs. 15%

No difference when experimenter was male
0.8 vs. 0.61
Only 5%

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Physiological Component of Emotion

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  1. Might be relatively general
  2. Different emotions could have similar patterns of arousal (faster heartbeat, perspiration, etc)
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Cognitive Component of Emotion

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We have to interpret our physiological arousal. What’s causing this aroused state? May misattribute physiological arousal to other things in environment

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Experiment 2: Love Bridge

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  1. Control for group selection effects.
  2. Give questionnaire to males who had crossed the scary bridge 10 minutes ago, assumed they were more relaxed after the delay
  3. They also differed from the group of males interviewed just after crossing the scary bridge
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Experiment 3: Lab Study

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  1. Effects of electric shock on learning
  2. Subjects told they would get strong shock or only weak shock
  3. Asked about level of anxiety, took TAT, also asked if attracted to other student in the study
  4. If they expected strong shock were more anxious AND more attracted to the confederate
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Amygdala basic “fear” mechanism

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  1. Generate emotional responses
  2. hormonal secretions and autonomic reactions that accompany strong emotions
  3. Damage causes inability to recognize fear in faces
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Brain-Based Emotions

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  1. Frontal lobes
  2. Influence people’s conscious emotional feelings and ability to act in planned ways based on feelings
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What emotions is the left frontal lobe responsible for?

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Processes positive emotions

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What emotions is the right frontal lobe responsible for?

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Involved with negative emotions

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Sympathetic functions

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Fight or flight

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Parasympathetic functions

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Restore calm

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James-Lange Theory of Emotion

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  1. Emotion arises from physiological arousal
  2. Event causes physiological arousal–> this causes emotion to be felt
  3. Different physiological states for each emotion

Perceived event–> physiological and behavioral responses –> emotional experience

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Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

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“Body” (physiological systems) and “mind” (emotional experience) are independently activated at the same time. Not physiological reaction, and then emotion. Could have general aroused state, not a distinct physiological state for each emotion

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Two-Factor Theory of Emotion (Schacter)

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Physiological arousal
- Sweaty palms
- Increased heart rate
- Rapid breathing
Cognitive Label
- Attribute source of arousal to a cause
To have an emotion both are required

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Schacter and Singer

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  1. Injected subjects with adrenaline
  2. 3 groups: placebo, informed, uninformed
  3. Confederate acted angry in one condition, in other he acted euphoric
  4. Uninformed subject were happy or angry depending on what confederate did
  5. Informed were not as affected (nor were placebo group)
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Zajonc/LeDoux Theory

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  1. Some emotions are processed rapidly like reflexes–bypass cortex
  2. Two-track theory: High road (cortex), low road (amygdala) - bypassing the cortex
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Polygraph Tests

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  1. Recording many tests
  2. Autonomic Nervous System
  3. Typical Measures:
    - Galvanic Skin Response
    - Pulse, Blood pressure
    - Breathing
    - Fidgeting
  4. Can’t measure lying directly, measure physiological correlates
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Emotion: Lie Detectors

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50 were innocent
50 were guilty
1/3 of innocent declared guilty

1/4 of guilty declared innocent

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Guilty Knowledge Test

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Let’s say an expensive Rolex watch is stolen
Catch a suspect: show him pictures of the stolen watch and several other watches. Only thief knows that this is a stolen watch. Look at autonomic system reactions (pupil etc.) to these pictures.

harder to cheat, more reliable

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Ekman’s Theory of Facial Expression and Feedback

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1.Each basic (6 or 7) emotion is built in to us
2. Each has a unique facial expression
3. Sensory feedback from expression contributes to emotional feeling
4. If you look, you will BE happy

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Universal Facial Expressions

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  1. Asked people in lots of different cultures to look at pictures of faces and guess which emotion:
    - People can agree on 6 emotions (happiness, anger, fear, sadness, surprise, disgust)
  2. More variability for other emotional expressions
  3. May be that these 6 have most survival value
    - But these were all college educated populations, in cultures that had some contact with each other
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What is the relationship between income and happiness?

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Over a 40-year period, Americans became over twice as wealthy, but no happier

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What is happiness not related to?

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Age, Gender, Education levels, Parenthood, physical attractiveness

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Social-Comparison Theory

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The theory that people evaluate themselves by making comparisons with others

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Adaptation-Level Theory

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The theory that people evaluate experiences in relation to current levels, to which they have become accustomed. Good things cause only temporary increase in happiness, But it is true of bad things too

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Evidence in support that people have a baseline happiness level

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  1. Identical twins have very similar happiness ratings, even if raised apart
  2. Positive or negative events only have temporary effects on happiness. Even big things like marriage or being hospitalized only have effects for three months
  3. Individual happiness levels are stable over the whole life span
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Stress and Health

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Stress is…the physiological and psychological response to conditions that are threatening or challenging

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Catastrophic stressors

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Plane crash, really bad earthquake, etc

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Major life event stressors

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relatively uncommon but emotionally charged events, like death of loved one

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Micro-stressors (daily hassles)

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Having an argument with someone, living in a crowded city, financial stressors, job stress

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The Stress Mechanism (Seyle)

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Alarm: a threat mobilizes body resistance to stress

Physiological response: Adrenaline, heart rate increases

Resistance: stress resistance reaches its maximum

If short fine, but if chronic

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Chronic stress leads to

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Exhaustion: the organism’s resources for dealing with stress are exhausted – stress resistance drops off (prolonged stress is detrimental)

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Stress Duration and Illness

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Volunteers were interviewed about life stressors, then infected with virus for cold. As length of stress increased, so did the likelihood of catching the cold. Stress impairs immune system functioning

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Personality and Coronary Heart Disease

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Type A personality: competitive, impatient, quick to anger, hostile (type A more prone to coronary heart disease)

Type B Personality: easygoing, relaxed, laid back

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What are the 4 D’s?

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  1. Dangerousness
  2. Distress: amount of distress it causes others
  3. Dysfunction: Suffering it causes the person, does it interfere with daily life, job etc.
  4. Deviance: Strangeness, considered bizarre within their context

Greater on this scale, greater odds of being abnormal

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Reliability

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Want individual diagnosticians reach the same conclusions using the same system

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Validity

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Want the system’s categories to be clinically meaningful. Predict future behavior, course of illness, response to medication

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Confirmation Bias

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People tend to look for evidence to confirm their hypothesis, but almost nevery try to look for evidence to disconfirm it

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Schemas

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We use schemas to interpret events and to make inferences. If we expect people with mental illness to act a certain way (we have a schema) so if I think that someone has X (they’ve been labeled), we interpret what they say and do differently.

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Who’s Crazy Here, Anyway (Rosenhan)

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  1. Can mental health professionals really distinguish healthy from mentally ill people?
  2. Sent healthy volunteers seek admittance to psychiatric facilities
  3. Once in hospital, the “pseudo-patients” would act as they would in outside world
  4. Would they be diagnosed as “normal”?
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Basics of Rosenhan

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8 subjects including himself checked themselves into a mental hospital saying that they heard voices, 7 out of 8 were labeled as schizophrenic despite acting normally in the interview.

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Implications of Rosenahan Study

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Was it a fair test of mental health professionals ability to distinguish healthy people from people who are mentally ill?

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Second Test (Rosenhan)

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Hospital was warned that Rosenhan was sending pseudo-patients to them. During the next three months one or more pseudo-patients were going to seek admittance

Results:
41 “pseudo-patients” were “uncovered” by at least one staff member

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Phobia

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An unreasonable, excessive, or irrational fear. To be a phobia, there must be great distress or major interference with daily life

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Agoraphobia

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Marked by intense fear when isolated in open spaces or in crowds. Fear of being in a place where escape would be difficult or impossible. May completely avoid going out in public

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Social Phobias

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Fear of situation that involves public scrutiny (fear of public embarrassment, lead to avoidance of social situations)

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Simple (object) phobias

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Fear of specific object or event

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Freud’s theory for what causes Phobias?

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Phobia is displacement of deeper fear. Little Hans 5 year old scared of being bitten by horses but really scared of his father (oedipal conflict)

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Classical conditioning approach to Phobias

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Learn to fear dogs cause one bit you when you were two years old. Reinforcement: avoid the object (dogs, spiders, heights) feel less anxiety

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Panic Attack/Panic Disorder

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Panic: Intense physiological reactions that occur in the absence of an emergency (onset can be sudden). Frequent attacks diagnosed as panic disorder (rate among women twice rate for men)

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Stress and Panic Disorder

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Panic disorder includes sudden, intense rushes of anxiety without apparent reason. In many cases, the first attack comes soon after illness, miscarriage, or other traumatic event. Big increase in stress in the months leading up to an attack

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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  1. High level of anxiety
  2. Lasts 6 months or more
  3. No obvious feared object (free floating anxiety)
  4. Sensitive to criticism, dwells on past mistakes, worries about money, family matters, illness, etc.
  5. Genetic contribution, but also could arise form childhood experiences
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PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. Battle-scarred veterans, survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent and sexual assaults

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Obsessions (OCD)

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Persistent, uncontrollable thoughts

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Compulsions

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Intrusive, inappropriate actions

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Obsessive Compulsive Cycle

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Obsessions–> then anxiety–> try to reduce that with compulsions but then have obsessions again

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Dissociative Disorders

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Disruption in memory, consciousness or self-identity. Conscious awareness is separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, feelings. Amnesia (loss of memory for self-relevant info, who are, where you live)

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personality)

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  1. Person has two or more distinct personalities/identities
  2. May not be aware of each others actions (or even existence)
  3. Each personality may have own voice, speech pattern habits, memories, sexual orientation, handwriting
  4. Cause? Often history of child abuse, child who is abused constructs alternate personalities to escape the pain and suffering
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Controversies- dissociative identity disorder (mutliple personality disorder)

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  1. Everyone can assume different personalities in different contexts
  2. Therapists can perhaps induce this in patients
  3. Reported rates of DID have changed a lot
  4. May be an “offshoot” of other disorders (such as personality disorders like Borderline Personality Disorder)
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Major Depressive Disorder

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  1. Overwhelming feelings of sadness, despair, hopelessness
  2. Loss of interest in pleasurable activities
  3. Intense feelings of guilt, worthlessness, self-blame
  4. Problems sleeping, concentrating on work, making decisions
  5. Loss of energy and fatigue
  6. Thoughts of suicide and death
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Age of First Onset for Depression

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  1. Depression is seldom identified before adolescence
  2. Diagnosed increases in early adulthood
  3. Most commonly diagnosed in middle age
  4. First diagnosis rare among the elderly
  5. Diagnosed more often in women than men
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