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An emotion is

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a relatively brief episode of coordinated brain, autonomic, and behavioral changes that facilitate a response to an external or internal event of significance for the organism.”

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Feelings are

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correspond to the subjective experience of emotions. […] they are the way you as an individual experience the emotion

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Moods

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diffuse affective states that are often of lower intensity than [an] emotion but considerably longer in duration”.

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The core features of emotion

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a - behavioural & physiological responses
b - evolved from basic mechanisms of survival
c - attached to an object or situation

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The core features of affect

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free - floating state, mood

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The core features of variables

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valence, intensity/arousal

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Positive valence

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attractiveness

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negative valence

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aversiveness

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James-Lange Theory of emotion

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Event produces physiological arousal. The physiological changes are then interpreted to produce the emotion

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Cannon-Bard Theory of emotion

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The even itself can trigger the emotion and arousal (at different times), but the arousal does not have to come first

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Diagram: James-Lange Theory of emotion

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Event, arousal, interpretation, emotion

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Diagram: Canon-Bard Theory of Emotion

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Emotion, event, arousal (arousal and emotion are interchangeable)

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Cognitive theory of Emotion

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it is the event and the arousal happening in parallel, not just the arousal that causes an emotion

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emergence- synthesis theory

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some emotions do not require interpretation while others do. So, many different affective configurations are possible

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Amygdala

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Fear is caused when a threatening stimulus activates it. Can induce the feeling of being scared without any thought or appraisal

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Internal factors of function of emotion

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Plans, memories, extended appraisal, physiological changes

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external predicaments of function of emotion

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antecedents, consequences, coping, automatic appraisal

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The neural mechanisms for reason and emotion are linked to classical view and romantic view

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Reason - frontal/pre-frontal cortex

emotion - limbic system, esp amygdala

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classical view

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emotions get in the way of reason

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romantic view

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emotions are better than reason

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Attention

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acts like a filter, focusing on what’s important(salient) and blocking out the rest

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Emotions

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steer attention towards items in the visual field that are important for survival

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Threat-superiority test

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It is easer to detect an angry face hidden among neutral faces than it is to detect a happy face hidden among neutral faces

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The stroop effect

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it takes longer to name the colour of a word tat spells a different colour. There are two perceptual dimensions - the colour of the word and the meaning of the word

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Flashbulb memory
Involves better recall for personal events during significant or emergency situations. Type of autobiographical memory since it is for events, not facts
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Hierarchy of emotional influences on memory
Negative stimuli are remembered better than positive or neutral stimuli and more arousing stimuli, whether they are positive or negative, are remembered better
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Mood congruent memory
moods must match during learning(only). We remember more stimuli if those stimuli match a mood we were in while learning them
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Mood dependent memory
moods during learning must match during recall. Recall is better when the mood at recall matched that during learning.
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Amygdala
part of the limbic system, is responsible for classical conditioning of a fear response
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The 'low road'
shorter neural circuit to the amygdala mediates fast emergency responses
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The 'high road'
longer neural circuit to the amygala mediates more thoughtful responses
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Neurotransmitters fight/flight hormones
epinephrine, norepineprhine, travelling between nerve cells, activating the amygdala and hippocampus
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adrenaline/epinephrine
fight or flight
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norepinephrine
prepares the body for alertness/arousal
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noradrenaline
concentration
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dopamine
pleasure
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serotonin
mood
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y-aminobutryic acid
calming
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acetylcholine
learning
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glutamate
memory
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aspects of metacognitino
credit and blame (two prespectives of social cognition)
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mentalism
people use mental representations for social phenomena. Change - mental representations and cognitive processes develop, operate, and change over time
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functionalism
social cognitive processing serves a purpose. Cognition is emobided and distributed (units and levels) e.g. the success of the system depends on more than one individual or module
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Intentionality
people try to control the environment, objects can't
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mutuality
people think about each other, objects don't
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self-concept
others judge or talk about us and are similar to us, objects don't
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observational bias
people act differently when observed, objects don't
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nonobservable attributes
this we can't see make a big difference, we can study objects more easily
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change
people change, objects change less
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accuracy of cognition
it can be hard to interpret others, easier to evaluate objects
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complexity
people are complex, objects are less complex
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explanation
we have to explain others, we don't always have to explain objects
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thinking about
theory of mind, attribution, stereotypes
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thinking with
joint attention, common ground, distributed cognition
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The mentalist "theory of mind"
1) The ability to understand others' mental states: belief, dsires, intentions 2) "we use our mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, mutual expectations, mutual assumptions to ground our interactions"
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Fundamental attribution error
the tendency to prefer internal or dispositional traits as best explanation for people's behaviour
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self-serving bias
the tendency to explain our own failures to external causes but to explain other people's failure as internal ones
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blief in a just world (phenomenon)
the phenomenon in which we think that people get what they deserve
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stereotypes
deal with our schemas about people, help us organise and understand people
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ingroup favouritism
views their own group as having more diversity, being more attractive, being nicer, being more socially acceptable
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outgroup homogeneity effect
others are seen as having more similarity
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prejudice
prejudgment about a group, person, thought (about a person or group), and a predisposition to act upon a prejudgement, involves emotions associated with a person or group, can be conscious or unconscious
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ontology can be:
1. distributed across groups 2. distributed over inner and outer processes 3. culture can organize cognition
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distributed across groups
a group has an organization structure. Group intelligence has: public and private goals, emergent organizational structure and cans hare as well as transform information
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distributed over inner and outer processes
cognition can be distributed between internal processes and external processes or things
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culture organizes cognition
it can be distributed across time with products of earlier events cultural additions - transforming the nature of later events
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socially distributed cognition
can involve shared tacit knowledge... how to attend and what to attend to
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Joint salience
the ideal solution to a coordination problem among two or more agents is the solution that is more salient, prominent, or conspicious with respoect to their common ground

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