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3 components of emotions

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Subjective thought or experience with accompanying patterns of neural activity and physical arousal
An observable expression

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Emotion

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A state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, congnitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies towards actions

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Culture and social contexts influence

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Our inner experience and outer expression of emotion

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Functions of emotion

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Provide rapid responses to environmental stimuli
Communicate intent to others
Influence social behaviors

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Brain parts involved in the initial response

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Parietal lobe and fusiform gyrus

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Amygdala

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A brain structure involved in the arousal and regulation of emotion and the initial emotional response to sensory information

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Damage to the amygdala

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Results in abnormality in processing fear (experiencing and recognizing in others)

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The amygdala is activated when

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The perception of arousing or aversive/fear inducing stimuli

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Fast route to fear

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Thalamus to amygdala

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Slow route to fear

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Thalamus, cortical areas for detail processing, amygdala

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Prefrontal cortex

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The most forward part of the frontal lobes of the brain, linked to emotional regulation

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Emotional regulation

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Modifying and controlling what we feel

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Slow pathways asymmetry

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Left is more tuned to approach emotions and right is more withdrawal and escape

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Theories of emotion involve

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Physiological response
Congitive appraisal of the situation
Over behavior
Subjective emotional experience

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Theories of emotion address these 2 questions

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Does physiological arousal came before or after emotional feelings
How do feeling and cognition interact

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Common sense veiw

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Stimulus, conscious feeling, autonomic arousal

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James-lange theory

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I feel afraid because I tremble. Stimulus, autonomic arousal. conscious feelign

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18
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Reasons why our heart race

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Fear, anxiety, excitement, love anger exercise

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James-Lange theory issue

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More emotional triggers that physiological triggers

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Cannon-Bard theory

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I feel afraid and tremble at the same time. Subcortical brain activity. conscious feeling and autonomically arousal

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Cannon-Bard theory other name

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Parallel processing

Correlational not causational

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Problems with Cannon Bard

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Physiological sensations are irrelevant to the emotional expression because they are occurring at the same time

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23
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Paralyzed WWII veterans

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Patients with spinal cord injuries reported lower emotions like anger and fear. Proving the body plays a role in emotions

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Pen smile study

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Participants were asked to place a pen in their teeth (smile muscles) or in their lips (frown muscles) and then report how they felt

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Pen smile study results

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Those using smile muscles reported being happier than those frowning

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Why facial feedback

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There are direct neve connections from the face to the brain

27
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Other factor that affects our emotional response

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Interpretation of the situation

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Schatcher and singer theory

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I label my trembling as fear because I appraise the situation as dangerous

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Schatcher and Singer other name

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Two factor theory of emotion

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Two factor theory of emotion

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Physiological arousal leads to a cognitive label

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Two factor emotion study

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All participants received a epi shot. They were told the shot would not effect them or it would. In the waiting room there was an angry or goofy confederate

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Two factor emotion study results

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Those told there were effects blamed what they were feeling on it. Those without picked up the mood of the room as their reason

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Capilano bridge experiment people

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Dutton and Aron 1974

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Capilano bridge experiment procedure

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Asked a attractive researcher to ask people questions of the tall capilano suspension bridge and low stable bridge. Later the people were asked to rate her attractiveness

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Capilano bridge experiment results

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There was a misattribution of arousal that was led to attraction not fear

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Anxiety appraisal

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Matters but not completely. Can be thought of as exactment leading to relaxation

37
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Universality of emotions people

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Ekman and Friesen 1971, 1975

38
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6 basic emotions

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Determined in the universality of emotions study
Happiness
Sadness
Anger
Fear
Surprise
Disgust
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Second part of the universality of emotions study

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Asked people in the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea about facial expressions as they had no outside contact

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Second part of the universality of emotions study results

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That the 6 emotions are truly universal

41
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Functions of facial expressions

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Reflect our internal feelings, communicate emotional states and signal others

42
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Facial expressions begin

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In infancy. They make them and interpret them at 6-7 months

43
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Real vs fake emotions

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Use different muscles.

44
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Pretend sadness

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Only 15% of subjects managed to get the eyebrows, eyelids and forehead wrinkle exactly right

45
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Duchenne smile

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A real smile that results in raising the cheeks and having crows’ feet appear at the eye

46
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Different types of smile

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Affiliation, reward and dominance

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Reward smiles

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Are displayed to communicate positive experiences or intentions

48
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Affiliative smiles

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Create and maintain social bonds and signal appeasement

49
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Dominance smiles

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To signal status

50
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Body language

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Nonverbal signals of movement, posture, gesture, and gaze

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Primary emotions

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Emotions considered to be universal and biologically based.

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Primary emotions examples

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Fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust and contempt

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Secondary emotions

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Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures

54
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Prototype emotions

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Primary emotions or the concept emotions. Expressed by children first through words

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What elicits emotions

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Some emotions are universal, but the content of what produces each emotion varies from culture to culture

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How are emotions expressed

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Display rules and emotional dialects

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Display rules

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Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how and where a person may express emotions

58
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Emotional dialects

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Variations across cultures in how common emotions are expressed

59
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Cross cultural emotional differences

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Based on 97 studies emotion judgments made within culture were 13% more accurate than those cross cultural

60
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Hagaii

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Japanese word for helpless anguish paired with frustration

61
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Schadenfreude

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German word for joy at another’s misfortune

62
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Fremdeschamen

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German word for vicarious embarrassment. particularly somebody who doesn’t realize they should be embarrassed

63
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Emotions and sterotypes

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People of colour are perceived as angry sooner than Caucasian

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