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EXAM 4: CHAPTER 11 Flashcards

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Emotion

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An intrapersonal state in response to an internal or external event

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4 components of emotion:

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  • Physiological: Changes in bodily arousal (eg. Heart rate, temperature, respiration
  • Cognitive: Subjective interpretation of one’s feelings and environment
  • Physical: Expression of emotion verbally/non-verbally (eg. Smile, frown, laugh)
  • Emotional: Keeping the emotion present (happiness) or removing it (sadness)
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How are emotions adaptive (3):

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  • Signals important events to direct attention
  • Triggers fight or flight
  • Social communication
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Universality hypothesis

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Emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone; originally proposed by Charles Darwin

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6 universal emotions expressed:

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  • Anger
  • Disgust
  • Fear
  • Happiness
    -Sadness
  • Surprise
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Ways to measure emotions - detecting lies:

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  • Behavioural displays of emotion
  • Self-reports of emotion
  • Psychophysiological reactions (eg. Heart rate, skin conductance, MRI)
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Cognitive functions for emotion

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Helps organize and retrieve memories, prioritizes concerns and needs, and guides judgement for decisions

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Behavioural functions for emotion

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Emotions alter behavior

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Social functions for emotion

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Foundation of relationships, improve quality of relationships and helps with empathy

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Action tendencies

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Emotions are associated with predictable patterns of behavior that help us adapt and survive

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3 main theories:

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  • James-Lange Theory
  • Cannon-Bard Theory
  • Schachter and Singer’s Two Factor Theory
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James-Lange Theory

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Emotions is our conscious awareness of our physiological response to stimuli (Body before thoughts)

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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We have conscious experience of an emotion at the same time as our body is responding, not afterwards (Simultaneous body response and cognitive experience)

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Schachter and Singer’s Two Factor Theory

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Emotions do not exist until we add a label to whatever body sensations we feel (Emotion = body plus a cognitive label)

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Cognitive-Mediational Theory

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Developed by Richard Lazarus. Cognitive appraisal is a cognitive mediator between environmental stimuli and our reactions to those stimuli

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Survival functions of emotions:

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  • Evolutionary theory: Emotions are innate, passed through generations
  • Basic emotions: A group of emotions preprogrammed into all human regardless of culture
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Infant emotions

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  • Emotions of interest, disgust, and contentment present at birth
  • Emotions of anger, sadness, joy, surprise and fear emerge between 2-7 months
  • In second year for infants, self-conscious emotions emerge such as shame, built, envy
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Facial-feedback theory

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Subjective experiences of emotion are influenced by sensory feedback from facial muscular activity, or facial efference

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Facial efference

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Sensory feedback from facial muscular activity

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Facial feedback hypothesis

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Emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify

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Amygdala emotion

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  • Important role in emotion; acts as a threat detector
  • Fast (thalamus>amygdala) and slow (thalamus>cortex>amygdala) pathways of fear in brain
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Appraisal

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Evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus

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Expressive behaviors

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People read a great deal of emotional content in the eyes and face

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Features that can be exposed as sincere and insincere:

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  • Morphology (reliable muscles)
  • Symmetry
  • Duration
  • Temporal patterning
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Positive feelings

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Happiness, optimism

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Positive traits

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Perseverance, wisdom

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Positive abilities

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Interpersonal skills

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Virtues

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Altruism, tolerance

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When you’re nervous about something, you may notice your hands sweat and mouth becomes dry. This is produced by your…

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Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Triggers fight or flight response

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Calms body down

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Secondary social sharing

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When people talk about emotions, it is hard for them to stop talking and then they share it with another person

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Alexithymia

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Inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by oneself and have difficulties recognizing angry and fearful faces

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4 elements of emotion:

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  • Feelings
  • Bodily response
  • Sense of purpose
  • Expressive behavior
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Measuring emotion (3):

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  • Behavioural displays of emotion
  • Self-reports of emotion
  • Physiological reactions
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Facial electronyography

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Measures contractions of facial muscles to detect emotion

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Heart rate

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Reduction in heart rate when individuals are presented with unpleasant stimuli. Whereas pleasant stimuli associated with accelerations in heart rate

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Skin conductance

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Measures galvanic skin response which reflects increased perspiration

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FMRI

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Measures brain patterns and activity when associated with lying. Not admissible in court yet

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Cannnon five points:

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  • Total separation of the visceral organs from the central nervous system does not alter emotional behavior
  • The same visceral changes often occur in different emotional states and in non-emotional states
  • The visceral changes are too slow to be the source of emotional feeling
  • Artificially inducing visceral changes does not produce strong emotions

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