The EMOTIONAL experience

Question 1

What are the three components of emotion?

Answer 1

1. Subjective cognitive experience
2. Bodily/physiological arousal
3. Overt behavioural expression

Question 2

What was up with Elliot? What did he lack when prompted?

Answer 2

Had tumor, got frontal lobe tissue responsible for emotion removed, intellectually ok though. Showed no impatience at all

Question 3

What is the centre of emotion for the brain, and what is it always doing in regards to fear?

Answer 3

Amygdala. Always scanning environment for emotional (fear) cues like branches snapping, snakes in photos, sends info to sensory part of brain

Question 4

Generally, what is the main physical component of the physiological stage of emotion? How does it work?

Answer 4

Autonomic arousal (F/F): smooth muscles, glands, blood vessels activated, secretes adrenal hormones, GSR

Question 5

What is a GSR? When does it happen?

Answer 5

Galvanic Skin Response: electrical conductivity of skin increases, coincides with increased sweat gland activity

Question 6

How do lie detector tests work? What do they exploit?

Answer 6

Exploit the autonomic nervous system (heart rate, BP, GSR). Based on assumption that subjects experience emotion/fear when they lie. Establish baseline with easy questions, go in for kill

Question 7

What is the flaw with lie detectors?

Answer 7

Some people don’t experience emotion when lying, and vice versa.

Question 8

What does Affective neuroscience look at?

Answer 8

The neurobiology of emotion

Question 9

What three structures are central to human emotion?

Answer 9

Amygdala, Limbic system, Hypothalamus

Question 10

What pathway do sensory inputs that trigger emotion follow? What if a fear response is required?

Answer 10

Absorbed through thalamus, go to cortex (conscious experience) and amygdala (danger, emotion) simultaneously. Amygdala will evoke hypothalamus if a hormonal response is required

Question 11

What might explain anxious disorders in kids?

Answer 11

Larger, more interconnected amygdala. So picking up more “dangers” than most peeps

Question 12

What are cognitive experiences of emotions useful for?

Answer 12

Can give them value judgements (normal statements). We also have limited control over some emotions

Question 13

What is the main hiccup with evaluating emotional experiences?

Answer 13

Hard to describe emotions, rarely “pure”

Question 14

What are we bad at in regards to emotion and cognition?

Answer 14

Affective forecasting: Predicting our future emotional states. Things generally aren’t as bad/good as we thought. (we’re bad at the intensity part that is)

Question 15

Why are we bad at predicting future emotional states?

Answer 15

Because we’re remarkably good at glossing over failures/bad emotions (always trying to return to baseline

Question 16

What is the best way to regulate emotions?

Answer 16

Explore and find a way to express/identify them

Question 17

What was the main thesis of that TED talk? What is the widest difference between them?

Answer 17

Basically, there are two “selves” that experience life/happiness:
1. Experience self: being happy in the moment
2. Memory self: being happy ABOUT your life
Perception of time: time doesn’t matter to memories (two week vacation will feel the same as one week in memory)

Question 18

Give an example of what TED was talking about

Answer 18

Guy really enjoying music (experience self), ended with loud screech. So he remembered it as a bad experience despite the fact that it was 99% positive.

Question 19

Give another example of what TED was talking about

Answer 19

Experience self (allegedly) won’t get happier moving to California. But REMEMBERING self will because it remembers how bad it was in Ohio

Question 20

What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

Answer 20

facial muscles send signals to brain. So, botoxing the frowning muscles actually clears up a lot of depression over 6 weeks. Destroying a negative feedback loop

Question 21

How do you detect genuine smiles over fake ones?

Answer 21

More muscles involved, so will appear crinkly

Question 22

What are the six fundamentally recognizable emotions on faces?

Answer 22

1. happy
2. sad
3. angry
4. disgust
5. afraid
6. surprise

Question 23

What are the caveats with “universally recognizable” emotions?

Answer 23

While generally pretty true across the board, some cultures varied in their responses (especially the more specific they got). This is because of the models typically being white/western, artificial poses

Question 24

Explain the differences between socially engaging emotional performance and the disengaging variant. Where are they popular?

Answer 24

SE: Japan, empathy, warmth, etc. More likely to feel them if told to display these
SD: NA, pride, anger, etc.

Question 25

What are display rules?

Answer 25

Cultural norms that regulate what emotions you should express

Question 26

What display rule do the Ifauluk of Micronesia exhibit? What about the Japanese?

Answer 26

If: don’t show happiness because that’s lazy
Ja: Repress negative emotions