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Unit 7 Pt 2: Emotion Flashcards

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Emotion is all of

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Physiological arousal 
Expressive behaviors (how you react to the physiological arousal)
Conscious experience (how you cognitively interpret environment)
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2
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6 universal emotions

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Happiness, anger, surprise, sadness, fear, disgust

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Evolutionary perspective would argue that emotions help us

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Survive and reproduce

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4
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Main survival emotions

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Fear and anger

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5
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Context affect interpretation of ________ expressions

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Facial

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Why does context affect interpretation of facial expressions? (Monster image)

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Many interpret the bottom monster as fearful while seeing the top monster as angry even though they have the same facial expressions

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7
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Cultural differences in emotion expressions aka

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Different display rules

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Different display rules

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Culture’s rules on when its appropriate to show your emotions

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9
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Western vs eastern cultures on emotion

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Western- intense, prolonged emotional displays

Eastern (Japan)- hide their emotions, especially when emotion is negative

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10
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Western cultures have more of _______ emotions

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Individualistic

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11
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Most psychologists say we _____ because we’re happy

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Smile

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12
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Smiling releases

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Serotonin

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13
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Facial feedback hypothesis

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There is an interplay between the emotion and our expression of it. The muscle contraction associated with emotions tend to amplify emotion

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14
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Muscle contraction associated with emotion tend to

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Amplify the emotion

Facial feedback hypothesis

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15
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James-Lange theory

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You feel fear AFTER experiencing your heart pounding

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16
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James-Lange theory argues that emotion is caused by

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Change in physical arousal

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17
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Physical arousal always precedes experience of an emotion

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James-Lange theory

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18
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Criticism of James-Lange theory

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You can have physical arousal without experiencing an emotion (running on treadmill)
Different emotions have very similar physical arousal

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19
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Cannon and Bard wouldn’t argue that

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Feeling of fear causes your heart to pound NOR that your heart pounding causes the feeling of fear

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20
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Which theory believes that heart rate and emotion and simultaneous?

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Cannon-Bard theory

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21
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Cannon-Bard theory

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An emotion arousing stimulus SIMULTANEOUSLY triggers physiological responses AND subjective experience of emotion

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Cannon-Bard theory is basically

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Sight of oncoming car(perception of stimulus)= pounding heart rate (arousal)+fear(emotion)

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23
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Someone had an injury in which they were unable to feel any bodily sensations, how would this affect emotion according to James Lange theory?

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No emotion

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Someone had an injury in which they were unable to feel any bodily sensations, how would this affect emotion according to Cannon Bard theory?

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Emotion without arousal

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25
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Schacter’s two factor theory of emotion beings

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Cognition

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26
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Schacter’s two factor theory criticized Cannon Bard theory by arguing that

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We don’t automatically know when we are happy, angry, jealous, etc.

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27
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Schacter’s two factor theory: we use _________ ______ to label our physical arousal

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Situational cues

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28
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Schacter’s two factor theory: to experience an emotion, one must be physically aroused AND

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Cognitively label the arousal

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29
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In what theory does context matter?

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Schacter’s two factor theory

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30
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Sight of car coming—> pounding heart and “oh fuck I’m about to die” leads to fear

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Schacter’s two factor theory

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31
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Zajonc and LeDoux not that

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Cognition doesn’t always have to occur before emotion

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32
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Zajonc and LeDoux theory

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Some pathways, especially ones involving amygdala (fear) bypass cortical areas involved thinking

33
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Automatically feeling startled by a sound in the jungle before labeling it as a threat

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Zajonc and LeDoux

34
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Some embodied responses happen instantly, without conscious appraisal

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Zajonc and LeDoux

35
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Schacter’s two factor theory: the 2 factors

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1) physical arousal

2) cognitive label

36
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Two dimensions of emotion are

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Valence and arousal

37
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Valence

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Level of PLEASANTNESS of the emotion

38
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How much you like the emotion

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Arousal

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How much the emotion physically activates the body

40
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Different levels of valence and arousal lead to

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Different levels of emotion

41
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What interpretations also effect how both the dimensions of emotion work?

42
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Positive valence is

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Negative valence is

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Not pleasant

44
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Valence and arousal of sadness

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Negative valence, low arousal

45
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Valence and arousal of fear/anger

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Negative valence, high arousal

46
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Valence and arousal of joy

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Positive valence, high arousal

47
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Valence and arousal of pleasant relaxation

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Positive valence, low arousal

48
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The physical arousal of emotion is controlled by

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Autonomic nervous system

49
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The physical arousal of emotion is controlled by autonomic nervous system

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It is difficult to differentiate the physical arousal associated with many emotions (hurts James-Lange Theory) even though they feel different

50
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The arousal associated with emotions are controlled by the autonomic nervous system’s divisions, the

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

51
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Autonomic nervous system

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Internal organs

52
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Polygraph

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Machine commonly used to in attempts to detect lies

53
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Polygraph measures responses to emotion including

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Perspiration
Heart rate
Blood pressure
Breathing changes

54
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Lie detector process, control questions

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Type of question where you will give a truthful response

Is your bday in June?

55
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Lie detector process, relevant questions

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Were you at the scene of the murder?

56
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You know the person is lying through lie detector when

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There is a bigger physiological reaction to the relevant question than the control question

57
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Arguments made against the lie detector

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Physical arousal could just be because of accusation
Can’t tell difference between fear and anger
Guilty people find ways to pass

58
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Paul Emmanuel

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Developed a system for classifying deception within emotional expression

59
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Paul Ekman: with experience and training it is possible to detect

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microexpressions

60
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microexpressions indicate

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Guilt, despair, and fear

61
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How to detect microexpressions?

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Pay close attention to facial muscles which are nearly impossible to control

62
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Who have more emotional reactivity than men in all measures except for anger?

63
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Catharsis: emotion of anger

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By releasing aggressive energy can relieve aggressive urges

64
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Emotional release

65
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Is the catharsis hypothesis true?

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Short term: yes

Long term: no

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Catharsis example

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Me screaming in the pillow when angry

67
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

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You will be helpful more often if you’re in a good mood

68
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Subjective well being is most common measurements

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Of happiness, satisfaction and quality of life

69
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Subjective well being looks at

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Ratio of positive to negative emotions and surveys life satisfaction

70
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Subjective well being can be combined with

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Objective well being- physical and economic indicators to evaluate people’s general quality of life

71
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Does money buy happiness?

72
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What affects happiness?: adaptation level phenomenon

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Our tendency to form judgements about our happiness relative to our prior experience

73
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All emotions tend to return to a base level after a certain time period

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Adaptation level phenomenon

74
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We tend to adapt to the new things in our life

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Adaptation level phenomenon

75
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What affects happiness?: relative deprivation

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Be disappointed when you perceive you are worse off than others

76
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Relative deprivation example

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Grade distribution

77
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Comparing to others

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Relative deprivation

78
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Both ways work with relative deprivation

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Feeling satisfied when comparing yourself to the less fortunate

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