Task 7- M&M Presentation (Computationally Modeling Human Emotion (Marsella & Gratch)) Flashcards
What did Simon say about emotions?
- critical function of intelligent behaviour
- interrupting mechanism -> switch between competing modes
What is the role of emotions?
-crucial in decision making
What does the discrete theory of emotion say?
there is a limited number of core,distinct emotions that are biologically determined, innate natural kinds
What does the dimensional theories of emotion say?
emotions and other affective phenomena should be conceptualized as continuous, not dimensional e.g. anger doesn’t have one distinct brain region/ circuit
What does the appraisal theory of emotions say?
o Emotions arise from a process of comparing individual needs to external demands; emotions cannot be explained by solely focusing on environment or only on individual
o Emotions reflect the “person-environment relationship” -> is characterized or appraised in terms of certain criteria (appraisal variables)
o Is this event desirable with respect to one’s goals or concerns?; Who caused it?; Was it expected?; and What power do I have over its unfolding? results of these appraisal checks are in turn mapped to emotion
What was the critic on the appraisal theory?
emotion is inherently reactive and appraisals are best viewed as a consequent, certainly not a precursor, of emotional reactions
How is the appraisal process?
appraisal process that assesses this representation is fast, parallel, and automatic
What does the appraisal theory lead to?
coping strategy -> influence on environment and internal beliefs
What is the appraisal theory in line with?
-in line w/ Simon’s definition/ purpose of emotions –> important for decision making
What does the EMA Model say about assigning values?
-assigns values for each relevant factor and Copes based on that
What is the person-environment relation?
- -> model has a specific relation that serves as input and output of the model
- environment: beliefs about world
- personal: desires and intentions
What is the causal Interpretation?
snapshot of the agent’s current knowledge concerning the agent-environment relationship. This knowledge changes, moment to moment, in response to observation or inference
Appraisal Derivation process
- appraisal: updated affective summary
- fast, parallel and automatic process
Which are the different appraisal values in the frame?
- Perspective: viewpoint from which the proposition is judged (your own or others)
- Relevance: releveant if it has non-zero utility for some agent
- Desirability: value of proposition to agent
- Likelihood: likelihood of propositions
- Expectedness: extent to which a state could have been predicted by causal interpretation
- Causal attribution: who deserves credit/blame?
- Controllability: Can the outcome be altered by an agent’s actions?
- Changeability: Can the outcome be altered by another agent?
What is mood?
adaptive, not intentional
-> biased average of appraised events over time
