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WEEK 8 COMPLETED SET Flashcards

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what is emotion

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an evaluative response- positive or negative which usually includes physiological arousal, it is a subjective experience, and includes behavioural expression

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what is affect in emotion

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pattern of behaviours that express emotions

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what is mood

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a more general emotional state that may or may not be externally expressed- related to emotion- may change how we express emotion

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what do elliot and gage show about emotion

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they display the link between, logic, reasoning, thinking and how you feel/emotion

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what is expression

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the overt signs of emotion- appearance of emotion

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what is emotional valence

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whether emotion is positive or negative and how much so. Includes pos and neg affect, which affects behaviour

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What is positive affect

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associated with pleasure seeking- approach oriented behaviour- makes us do it. Reinforcement. possibly left frontal lobe

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Negative affect

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related to avoidance behaviours- possibly in right frontal lobe

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what is discrete emotion theory

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humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are seperate from culture/enviroment and are universal, occur before thought, and have distinct physiological responses.

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what is darwins theory of emotion

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an evolutionary perspective which suggests that emotions serve adaptive purposes, therefore increasing chances of survival

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What is the adaptive value of disgust?

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makes you less likely to consume toxic substances

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What is the adaptive value of fear?

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eyes widen to help recognise and see dangerous things

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What is the adaptive value of jealously?

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fists clenched and teeth bared makes you ready to fight

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what are the seven primary emotions?

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Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise, Happiness, Sadness, Contempt

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what are secondary emotions

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When two or more primary emotions result in secondary ones.

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what are the physiological responses related to anger and fear

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increased heart rate, and change in digestive system speed

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what is the james lange theory of emotion?

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An emotional inducing stimuli causes a behavioural and bodily response which causes our subjective interpretation of this arousal as an emotion

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What is evidence for James-Lange theory of Emotion?

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Hohmann 1966 suggested that high spinal damage is associated withe reduced subjective emotion

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What is evidence AGAINST James-Lange theory of Emotion?

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Emotional responses can be faster than physiological responses and we are not always aware of bodily reaction

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Somantic Marker Theory of Emotion

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Gut reactions and physiological responses unconsciously directs our decision making and emotional reactions- However, people without an autonomic nerve system can still make decisions w/out bodily feedback

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Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

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Emotional and behavioural responses are elicited simultaneously and independently.

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What is evidence AGAINST Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?

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somatic and autonomic responses can influence emotional responses in some cases

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Appraisal Theory of Emotion (By Lazarus)

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emotion arises from appraisal of stimulus- suggests that emotions will vary depending on the significance of a stimulus. Starts with perception, followed by cognitive appraisal, emotion and THEN response

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Two Factor theory of emotion (Singer-Shacter)

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Perception, followed by general arousal, cognition and then emotion. Suggests, first there is unspecified autonomic arousal followed by cogntive interpretation based on events.

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evidence for two factor theory of emotion

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people rate opposite as more attractive if they have just been on a rollercoaster.

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Evidence AGAINST two factory theory of emotion

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emotion can occur without arousal

27
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What is reframing emotion?

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reframing the meaning of an event before emotional response occurs can reduce negative effect of an emotion. This is learnt and helps to change the way we react

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What is suppression emotion?

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Suppression after the emotional response leads to increased autonomic arousal. This is learnt and helps to change the way we react

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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

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You are more likely to feel emotions that correspond to your facial features

30
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How is the amygdala involved in emotion?

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learning, recognising and responding to emotion - specifically fear

31
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How is the hypothalamus involved in emotion?

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regulates autonomic nervous system and endocrine system (via pituitary gland) which activates the flight or flight response

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How is the hippocampus involved in emotion?

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Encoding new LTM’s including emotional information through interaction with amygdala- influenced by context

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How is the cingulate cortex involved in emotion?

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controlling and interpreting emotional experience and interpreting/engaging in social behavior-

34
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What is Kluver-Bucy Syndrom

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bilateral removal/ damage to the amydgala- major symptoms include lack of fear, urge to put things in the mouth, memory loss, and hyper sexuality

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How is the prefrotalcortex involved in emotion?

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cognitive appraisal of emotional information, conscious decisions based on emotional information, interpreting meaning of peripheral responses, regulation of emotional responses and expression

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How is the insula cortex involved in emotion?

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involved in recognition/ experience of disgust and plays a broad role in interpretation and integrating affective and cognitive processes.

37
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What is the high and low road pathways?

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involved in emotion, low road= fast subcortical pathway via thalamus-rapid threat detection
High road= slower cortical pathway, caused more complex analysis - brings info back into amygdala

38
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what is the effect of mood on cognition?

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influence memory capacity, problem solving, decision making, judgements, inferences and predictions, bias our attention, expectations and recall

39
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what is the mere exposure effect?

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we like more familiar stimuli, due to easier to process?

40
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Caveats of high and low load pathways

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emotion activates widespread areas of brain ( not just amygdala& prefrontal cortex), emotion areas also involved in other processes, no brain structures r linked 2 one emotion, same stim differen activaton in other people

41
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effect of posture

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can communicate emotions largely in unconcious ways

42
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effect of gestures

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can convery emotion through illustrators or manipulators

43
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effect of emblems

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more culture specific gestures eg. thumbs up

44
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effect of non-verbal gestures

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often a powerful cue that we are trying to hide an emotion

45
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effect of microexpression

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brief 1/15th-1/25th second expressions which occur when trying to conceal emotion

46
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what are proxemics:

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study of personal space- correlated with emotional distance, moderate cultural sex and ages differeences

47
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four levels of person space distance

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  1. public 12ft 2. social 4-12ft 3. personal 1.5-4ft 4. intimate 0-1.5ft
48
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what is the broaden and build theory of happiness

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happiness predisposes us 2 think more openly allowing us to see the big picture - optimists tend to be happier than pesimists and tend to cope better with bad life events and may live longer

49
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people are happier when..

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married, education, religious, do exercise, many close friends, flow, reasonable income, giving, gratitude, individualistic cultures

50
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people are not necessarily happier from..

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experiences, money, youth, never being worried

51
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what is affective forcasting

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making decisions about a life event and estimating hoow happy that choice will make us

52
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what is durability bias

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overestimating the long term impact of events on our mood

53
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what is the hedonic treadmill effect?

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the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.- we bounce up and down a set point of happiness

54
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what is self esteme

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a persons evaluation of their worth- many people think this causes unhappiness but no scientific evidence for this- low relationship to sucess

55
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what are positive illusions of self esteeme

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the tendency to percieve ourselves more positivly than others do

56
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what is positive psychology

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emphasises human strengths, resilience, coping, life satisfaction, love and happiness

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