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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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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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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
Those using smile muscles reported being happier than those frowning
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Why facial feedback
There are direct neve connections from the face to the brain
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Other factor that affects our emotional response
Interpretation of the situation
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Schatcher and singer theory
I label my trembling as fear because I appraise the situation as dangerous
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Schatcher and Singer other name
Two factor theory of emotion
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Two factor theory of emotion
Physiological arousal leads to a cognitive label
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Two factor emotion study
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
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
Dutton and Aron 1974
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Capilano bridge experiment procedure
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
There was a misattribution of arousal that was led to attraction not fear
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Anxiety appraisal
Matters but not completely. Can be thought of as exactment leading to relaxation
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Universality of emotions people
Ekman and Friesen 1971, 1975
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6 basic emotions
``` 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
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
That the 6 emotions are truly universal
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Functions of facial expressions
Reflect our internal feelings, communicate emotional states and signal others
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Facial expressions begin
In infancy. They make them and interpret them at 6-7 months
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Real vs fake emotions
Use different muscles.
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Pretend sadness
Only 15% of subjects managed to get the eyebrows, eyelids and forehead wrinkle exactly right
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Duchenne smile
A real smile that results in raising the cheeks and having crows' feet appear at the eye
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Different types of smile
Affiliation, reward and dominance
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Reward smiles
Are displayed to communicate positive experiences or intentions
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Affiliative smiles
Create and maintain social bonds and signal appeasement
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Dominance smiles
To signal status
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Body language
Nonverbal signals of movement, posture, gesture, and gaze
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Primary emotions
Emotions considered to be universal and biologically based.
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Primary emotions examples
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust and contempt
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Secondary emotions
Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures
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Prototype emotions
Primary emotions or the concept emotions. Expressed by children first through words
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What elicits emotions
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
Display rules and emotional dialects
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Display rules
Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how and where a person may express emotions
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Emotional dialects
Variations across cultures in how common emotions are expressed
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Cross cultural emotional differences
Based on 97 studies emotion judgments made within culture were 13% more accurate than those cross cultural
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Hagaii
Japanese word for helpless anguish paired with frustration
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Schadenfreude
German word for joy at another's misfortune
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Fremdeschamen
German word for vicarious embarrassment. particularly somebody who doesn't realize they should be embarrassed
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Emotions and sterotypes
People of colour are perceived as angry sooner than Caucasian