Lecture 12: Emotion

Question 1

Emotion and Motivation cycle / relationship

Answer 1

Emotion can lead to motivation
ex: feeling anxious about failing a class so you feel more motivated to study

In return, Motivation impacts emotion
ex: Really motivated to do well in a class because you care about your GPA. This drive to succeed is sufficient to causing emotions like anxiety

Question 2

What are the three components of emotion

Answer 2

Physiological Component

Cognitive component

Behavioral Component

Question 3

Physiological component prepares us for ________________

Answer 3

our fight or flight response

Question 4

The Physiological component involves the autonomic nervous system which ____________________

Its composed of two parts
1.
2.
(Name and describe them )

these systems help us ______ _____ _____ _______

Answer 4

Mobilizes the body for action and then calms it when crisis has past

1.Sympathetic Nervous system
- prepares us for a fight or flight response

2. Parasympathetic Nervous System
   - calms the body down brining it back to a state of homeostasis

These systems help us feed into our emotions

Question 5

What do Polygraphs detect? and How?

what are some errors with polygraphs? (in terms of people and crimes)

Answer 5

They detect emotions by monitoring autonomic arousal

Pathological liars might not show results but high anxiety filled people might show results because of their flight or fight response even if they are not guilty of a crime.

Question 6

Cognition can define ______

Answer 6

emotion

Question 7

Spillover effect

Answer 7

Arousal response to one event influences our response to another event
ex: good news and arousal after a workout leads to more excitement

(think emotions spilling over into more emotions)

Question 8

Schachter and Singer experiment (1962)

Answer 8

injected college students with epinephrine then sent them to a second room with another person acting in a super happy way or unhappy way. As participants observed this they began to report heart racing, hot faces, and rapid breathing.

1/2 was told epinephrines side effects like hard to breathe etc.

1/2 was told no side effects

those told the injection would cause the to feel faces flush, reported no emotion apart of description. Those who had the were told no side effects of the injection reported face hot but also euphoria of irritable Emotions caught from other person in the room

Question 9

True or False: Some emotional responses do not require conscious thinking

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Many of our emotional reactions are ________ and ________

Answer 10

Automatic and emotionless

Question 11

Is it difficult to change emotional responses that are automatic?

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

Behaviorally emotions are expressed through ______ ______ and ______ ________

expression of emotion is ______ / ______ ______ by observation. It is also the ______ cross __________

Answer 12

1. Facial expressions and body language
2. innate/not learned, same cross culturally

Question 13

Facial-Feedback Hypothesis

Answer 13

Posits that facial muscles send signals to the brain that help it recognition the emotion being experienced

Question 14

Cross culturally there are:
- ____________in the ability to differentiate _______ expressions of emotions
- __________ in the categorization of emotions

Answer 14

• Similarities, facial
  -differences

ex: new guinea; no word for depression–> symptoms not categorized as depression if there is no word

20% US depression

2% China depression