Lecture 5 Flashcards
Define Cognition
Representation of knowledge, thoughts, beliefs, and these processes by which these representations are acquired and manipulated
Define Affect
General term for entire range of feeling states
Define Preferences
Subjective responses to people, objects, or events
Define Moods
Chronic, non-specific feeling states
Define Emotions
Specific, transient feeling states
How is basic emotion described? (discrete states)
As discrete states that evolved to mobilise the organism to deal with fundamental life tasks
What are the 6 basic emotions?
- Happiness
- Sadness
- Anger
- Fear
- Disgust
- Surprise
How do the 6 basic emotions transfer across cultures?
These emotions have cross-cultural signals, whilst other emotions (not one of the 6) are not recognised by other cultures
What did Darwin theorise about emotions?
Of emotions as adaptations. He said they were ‘left overs of functional behaviours related to those emotions’
When theorising the origin of remaining emotions, what are Emotion Families?
The 6 emotions are categories not states, they are the prototype but there is variation to it
When theorising the origin of remaining emotions, what are Emotion Blends?
The 6 emotions are building blocks but we can blend/combine them into different states
e.g. jealousy = anger + sadness
When theorising the origin of remaining emotions, what are Social Emotions?
Emotion interpretation is socially influenced. Can distinguish between basic emotions and social emotions
e.g. anger is the core but in a social context it is seen as jealously
Describe the theory between many emotive words and emotion
That there may be more words to describe emotion but it’s just core emotions described differently
In H.Aviezer et al’s study, they showed contrasting facial expression to body language. How was peoples’ description of emotion influenced?
People were less confident in describing emotion due to different social context that doesn’t align with the expression
Describe the idea of Dimensional Models of emotion
Models say we are always in some state, the state label depends on the culture and contest
