Week 10-Emotion Flashcards
Emotions
Can be seen as a combination of:
Subjective Perceptions (conscious and unconscious)
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Energy
behaviour with the
following three components
- subjective thought and/or experience
(cognitive appraisal) - An accompanying patterns of neural
activity and physical arousal
(physiological arousal) - An observable behavioural expression
(e.g., an emotional facial expression or
changes in muscle tension)
Unconscious – brain
executes reaction to fear
Two pathways for
processing fear
Low road (unconscious
processing)
High road (conscious
processing
The sympathetic division
prepares the body to respond to stress.
The parasympathetic division
restores
the body to normal conditions.
emotions have
physiological,
behavioral, and cognitive components
James-Lange Theory ,Event, physical response, emotion
the subjective experience of fear follows the
physiological response, your heart was racing, which made you nervous about the
noise.
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion (same time, does not cause another)
Feeling of emotion (e.g., fear) occurs at same time as physiological arousal (e.g.,
pounding heart).
The brain interprets a situation and generates subjective emotional feelings
Schachter and Singer suggested
our interpretation of
why we are aroused that creates the emotional experience
Cognitive aspects
(e.g., thoughts, memories, beliefs, interpretations
of experiences, etc.) play a role in emotional experiences.
Emotions are a combination
of an undifferentiated arousal (“alertness”), with an attribution (explanation) of that arousal
Ekman found
at least six basic facial expressions that
are universally recognized by people all over the
world (happy, sad, angry, etc.
Primary emotions are
emotional reactions to a situation or
external events (sadness, fear, shame, anger and joy)
Secondary emotions are
what an individual feels about the
feeling itself. Emerge in the second year of life (anxiety, irritation, aggression, rage, or hopelessness)
