The EMOTIONAL experience Flashcards
What are the three components of emotion?
- Subjective cognitive experience
- Bodily/physiological arousal
- Overt behavioural expression
What was up with Elliot? What did he lack when prompted?
Had tumor, got frontal lobe tissue responsible for emotion removed, intellectually ok though. Showed no impatience at all
What is the centre of emotion for the brain, and what is it always doing in regards to fear?
Amygdala. Always scanning environment for emotional (fear) cues like branches snapping, snakes in photos, sends info to sensory part of brain
Generally, what is the main physical component of the physiological stage of emotion? How does it work?
Autonomic arousal (F/F): smooth muscles, glands, blood vessels activated, secretes adrenal hormones, GSR
What is a GSR? When does it happen?
Galvanic Skin Response: electrical conductivity of skin increases, coincides with increased sweat gland activity
How do lie detector tests work? What do they exploit?
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
What is the flaw with lie detectors?
Some people don’t experience emotion when lying, and vice versa.
What does Affective neuroscience look at?
The neurobiology of emotion
What three structures are central to human emotion?
Amygdala, Limbic system, Hypothalamus
What pathway do sensory inputs that trigger emotion follow? What if a fear response is required?
Absorbed through thalamus, go to cortex (conscious experience) and amygdala (danger, emotion) simultaneously. Amygdala will evoke hypothalamus if a hormonal response is required
What might explain anxious disorders in kids?
Larger, more interconnected amygdala. So picking up more “dangers” than most peeps
What are cognitive experiences of emotions useful for?
Can give them value judgements (normal statements). We also have limited control over some emotions
What is the main hiccup with evaluating emotional experiences?
Hard to describe emotions, rarely “pure”
What are we bad at in regards to emotion and cognition?
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)
Why are we bad at predicting future emotional states?
Because we’re remarkably good at glossing over failures/bad emotions (always trying to return to baseline
What is the best way to regulate emotions?
Explore and find a way to express/identify them
What was the main thesis of that TED talk? What is the widest difference between them?
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)
Give an example of what TED was talking about
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.
Give another example of what TED was talking about
Experience self (allegedly) won’t get happier moving to California. But REMEMBERING self will because it remembers how bad it was in Ohio
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
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
How do you detect genuine smiles over fake ones?
More muscles involved, so will appear crinkly
What are the six fundamentally recognizable emotions on faces?
- happy
- sad
- angry
- disgust
- afraid
- surprise
What are the caveats with “universally recognizable” emotions?
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
Explain the differences between socially engaging emotional performance and the disengaging variant. Where are they popular?
SE: Japan, empathy, warmth, etc. More likely to feel them if told to display these
SD: NA, pride, anger, etc.
What are display rules?
Cultural norms that regulate what emotions you should express
What display rule do the Ifauluk of Micronesia exhibit? What about the Japanese?
If: don’t show happiness because that’s lazy
Ja: Repress negative emotions
