Unit 3

Question 1

What does FACS stand for?
What does it do?
Drawback?

Answer 1

Facial Action Coding System
assigns number to measure facial muscles
Time consuming and ambiguous

Question 2

True or False: Ppl recognize expressions of their own ethnic group better than outsiders

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is free labeling?
Drawbacks?

Answer 3

Present photos one at a time and ask what emotion each face is
Ambiguous answers sometimes

Question 4

What are the four categories of emotions?

Answer 4

Happiness, sadness, fear/surprise, and anger/disgust

Question 5

Are there only four categories of emotions?

Answer 5

No because these emotions were chosen randomly from a computer program

Question 6

What is encoding in terms of emotion?

Answer 6

What you do/sound like when ur feeling _

Question 7

What is decoding in terms of emotion?

Answer 7

Can you tell when someone is _

Question 8

What is the facial expressions study?

Answer 8

Show facial expression pics to diff cultures

Question 9

What were some problems of the facial expressions study?

Answer 9

Forced choice, within-subject (seeing other emotions can eliminate guesses), pre-selected stereotyped portrayals

Question 10

What are innate emotions?
Example?

Answer 10

Ppl can learn perceptual categories without even seeing them, like colour
Pride