Unit 7 Pt 2: Emotion Flashcards
Emotion is all of
Physiological arousal Expressive behaviors (how you react to the physiological arousal) Conscious experience (how you cognitively interpret environment)
6 universal emotions
Happiness, anger, surprise, sadness, fear, disgust
Evolutionary perspective would argue that emotions help us
Survive and reproduce
Main survival emotions
Fear and anger
Context affect interpretation of ________ expressions
Facial
Why does context affect interpretation of facial expressions? (Monster image)
Many interpret the bottom monster as fearful while seeing the top monster as angry even though they have the same facial expressions
Cultural differences in emotion expressions aka
Different display rules
Different display rules
Culture’s rules on when its appropriate to show your emotions
Western vs eastern cultures on emotion
Western- intense, prolonged emotional displays
Eastern (Japan)- hide their emotions, especially when emotion is negative
Western cultures have more of _______ emotions
Individualistic
Most psychologists say we _____ because we’re happy
Smile
Smiling releases
Serotonin
Facial feedback hypothesis
There is an interplay between the emotion and our expression of it. The muscle contraction associated with emotions tend to amplify emotion
Muscle contraction associated with emotion tend to
Amplify the emotion
Facial feedback hypothesis
James-Lange theory
You feel fear AFTER experiencing your heart pounding
James-Lange theory argues that emotion is caused by
Change in physical arousal
Physical arousal always precedes experience of an emotion
James-Lange theory
Criticism of James-Lange theory
You can have physical arousal without experiencing an emotion (running on treadmill)
Different emotions have very similar physical arousal
Cannon and Bard wouldn’t argue that
Feeling of fear causes your heart to pound NOR that your heart pounding causes the feeling of fear
Which theory believes that heart rate and emotion and simultaneous?
Cannon-Bard theory
Cannon-Bard theory
An emotion arousing stimulus SIMULTANEOUSLY triggers physiological responses AND subjective experience of emotion
Cannon-Bard theory is basically
Sight of oncoming car(perception of stimulus)= pounding heart rate (arousal)+fear(emotion)
Someone had an injury in which they were unable to feel any bodily sensations, how would this affect emotion according to James Lange theory?
No emotion
Someone had an injury in which they were unable to feel any bodily sensations, how would this affect emotion according to Cannon Bard theory?
Emotion without arousal
Schacter’s two factor theory of emotion beings
Cognition
Schacter’s two factor theory criticized Cannon Bard theory by arguing that
We don’t automatically know when we are happy, angry, jealous, etc.
Schacter’s two factor theory: we use _________ ______ to label our physical arousal
Situational cues
Schacter’s two factor theory: to experience an emotion, one must be physically aroused AND
Cognitively label the arousal
In what theory does context matter?
Schacter’s two factor theory
Sight of car coming—> pounding heart and “oh fuck I’m about to die” leads to fear
Schacter’s two factor theory
Zajonc and LeDoux not that
Cognition doesn’t always have to occur before emotion