PSY101 LO9 Key Terms Ch 11 Flashcards
Nonverbal signals of body movement, posture, gesture, and gaze.
Body language
Process used to identify a guilty person by use of multiple-choice questions related to the crime and inference.
Guilty Knowledge Test
A state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all shaped by cultural rules.
Emotion
The explanations that people make of their own and other people’s behaviors, characteristics.
Attributions
Expression of an emotion that the person does not really feel, often because of a role requirement.
Emotion work
Based on the assumption that a lie generates emotional arousal.
Polygraph (“lie detector”)
The process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
Facial feedback
Emotions considered to be universal and biologically based; they generally include fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt.
Primary emotions
Parts of the prefrontal cortex are involved in regulating emotions.
Emotion regulation
Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures.
Secondary emotions
