Emotions (chap 12 page 458-486) Flashcards
What 3 things are involved in emotions?
1) physiological arousal 2) expressive behaviour, and 3) conscious experience
James-Lang theory
our experience of emotions is our awareness of our physiological resonses to emotional-arousing stimuli
Cannon-Bard theory
the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers 1) physiological responses and 2) the subjective experience of emotion
two-factor theory
the Schachter-Singer theory that experience emotion one must 1) be physically aroused and 2) cognitively label the arousal
spill-over effect
arousal from situation A can spill over in situation B
positive mood tend to trigger more _____ frontal lobe activity
left
How do the two automatic nervous system affect our emotional responses?
sympathic division: arouse us prepar fight or flight.
parasympathetic division: calms when crises has passed
Are women gennerally better at reading peoples emotions?
yes
Are gestures or facial expressions universal?
facial expressions
facial feedback effect
the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger and happiness
catharsis
emotional release. in psychology, the cartharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” agressive energy (through action or fantacy) relieves agressive urges (short term at least)
feel-good, do-good phenomenon
people’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
subjective well-bieng
self-percieved happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate peoples quality of life
adaptation-level phenomenon
our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
relative deprivation
the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
