quiz 7 Flashcards
emotion
- functional reaction to a stimulus event or change
response coherence postulate
channels that underlie emotions are associated together; they do not act independently
emotion prototype
average meaning that all words in the emotion category have in common
- happiness, love, surprise, sadness, fear, anger
qualia
primitive subjective experiences
- emotion words that represent affective experiences are not fully describable by other words
epileptic aura
psychological changes preceding the occurrence of a seizure
emotional education
learning to label feelings with emotion words
law of change
the greater the stimulus change, the stronger the subsequent emotion
law of emotional momentum
an emotion stimulus can repeatedly elicit the same emotion provided that an individual has not habituated to the stimulus
honeymoon effect
high frequency of intercourse early in a marriage
james-lange theory
each specific emotion is accompanied by a unique pattern of physiological responses (physiological response comes first)
cognitive arousal theory
a pattern of physiological responses could serve as the basis for different affective experiences; how the pattern is perceived
excitation transfer
whether arousal comes from original stimulus or elsewhere does not matter
cannon’s theory
emergency response concept
emergency response
fighting or fleeing
- make the organism more capable in dealing with situations that produce fear, rage, and pain
action readiness
state of preparedness to execute a particular kind of behavior
- felt as urges or impulses to act in a certain fashion depending on the emotional experience
mood
- last longer than emotions
- intensity is less than that of emotions
- appear without direction or an intended outcome
- positive or negative, only the two dimensions
morningness-eveningness
the time of day that a person functions best
seasonal affective disorder
depression, anxiety, sadness, daytime tiredness especially in the winter
situational definition
what features of stimulus changes are responsible for emotions
- assumes that emotions are caused by people’s reactions to changing events in the environment and ignores how people might appraise the events
expression-feeling link
different facial expressions are linked with different emotional feelings
efference hypothesis
the activated brain circuit sends infor to facial muscles which generate the expression that is synonymous with the emotional feeling
emotion recognition
studies asking people to name an emotion based on someone’s facial expression
readout hypothesis
a facial expression conveys an individual’s emotional feeling to another individual
behavioral ecology hypothesis
facial expressions are issued to serve one’s social motives in a particular situation and need not be linked to emotional feelings
social facial vasodilation
during certain social situations the small blood vessels of the face and neck expand to increase blood flow in those areas
display rules
govern the expressions that individuals must exhibit in public and need not be linked to emotional feelings
- voluntary
motive for action
induce the individual to deal specifically with the emotional event
appraisal tendency hypothesis
each emotion has a unique influence on peop;e’s judgements
set point level of happiness
the level of unhappiness or happiness that people consistently return to
hedonic treadmill
events that decrease or increase happiness only have a temporary effect
