Lecture 7

Question 1

Define an Emotion

Answer 1

psychological responses to important objects
with several component processes

Question 2

What are the components of an emotion?

Answer 2

1) Affective
2) Cognitive
3) Motivational
4) Physiological
5) Expressive

Question 3

What component is assessed by self report?

Answer 3

can asses all if consciously reflected
Affective

Question 4

What component is assessed when using Neuroimaging?

Answer 4

affective and cognitive

Question 5

what component is assessed when using physiological analysis components?

Answer 5

Physiological

Question 6

What component is asses when using behavioural observations

Answer 6

facial, postural, vocal expressions

Question 7

How can we organize this complex world of emotions?

Answer 7

classify emotions using dimensions describing them
(sort them into groups)

Question 8

what are the 3 dimensions used to describe an emotion?

Answer 8

valence
activation
object focus

Question 9

What is valence?

Answer 9

positive vs negative (pleasant vs unpleasant)

Question 10

what is activation?

Answer 10

physiological arousal
excitement vs relaxation

Question 11

what is object focus?

Answer 11

achievement emotions vs social emotions

Question 12

wh

Question 13

What is the Circumplex Model of Affect?

Answer 13

it uses 2 dimensions which are valence and arousal and was created by James A. Russell

Question 14

what is achievement emotion?

Answer 14

emotions related to achievement

Question 15

What is Epistemic emotions?

Answer 15

emotions related to the cognitive quality of information e.g. surprise

Question 16

what is a social emotion?

Answer 16

emotions related to another person

Question 17

what is required to understand emotions

Answer 17

all 3 dimensions
for example, three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions