week 9 Flashcards
Emotions are 4 things
short-lived, feeling arousal, purposeful expression phenomena, that help us adapt to the opportunities and challenge we face during important life events
the four components of emotion:
feeling component
bodily arousal component
purposeful component
social-expressive component
explain feeling component and bodily arousal component
Feeling Component (Feelings)
* Subjectively felt experience that has meaning, personal significance, and levels of
intensity and quality.
Bodily Arousal Component (Action Preparedness)
* Neural (brain), physiological (heart rate, hormones), and body (posture,
musculature) activation that prepare the body for adaptive coping behavior.
explain purposeful component and social-expressive component
Purposeful Component (Function)
* Goal-directed motivation to do something specific (to cope successfully with
the significant life event).
Social-Expressive Component (Expression)
* Public expression of our private state, as through facial expressions, voice
intonations, gestures, and posture.
emotion as motivation
emotions are one type of motive which energizes and directs behaviour
emotion as readout
Emotions serve as an ongoing readout system to indicate how well or how poorly personal adaptions is going
Two system view: both systems
intuition and instinct and reational thinking
intuition and instinct originates to the
ancient evolutionary history of the species
the rational thinking system explained
The second system an
experienced-based
cognitive system that
depends on the unique
learning history of the
individual
two things that end an emotion
- removal of the significant life event that activated the emotion in the first place
- engaging in coping behaviours that successfully manage and alter the significant life event
how many emotions are there: biological perspective
2-8
cognitive perspective: how many emotions are there
unlimited
features of basic emotions: 5
- Distinct facial expression
- Distinct pattern of physiology
- Automatic (unlearned) appraisal
- Distinct antecedent cause
- Inescapable (inevitable) activation
what are first oder emotions
triggered
automatically in response to
environmental stimuli
second-order emotions
triggered by
“emotional schemas” or
“emotional knowledge” learned
through socialization
experiences (e.g., guilt, surprise)
emotions as a coping function
- Emotions help people deal with fundamental life tasks—universal
human predicaments such as threat, obstacles, loss, and
achievement.