What drives us?- Emotions Test 3 Flashcards
What is the relationship between motivation and behaviour?
- eg.- emotions often motivate behaviour; emotions are produced when goals are blocked; we’re motivated to behave in a way that will produce desirable emotions
What are the 3 components of Emotions:
1) Conscious experience such as thoughts or feelings
2) Physiological changes or arousal
3) Overt, expressive behaviors (body language, facial expression, voice intonation)
Why are facial expressions good emotional indicators
-they are expressed similarly across cultures
-people born blind use these same expressions (some are innate)
What are the two dimensions of emotion?
a) Valence: either positive or negative
b) Arousal: either low or high
Any emotion is some combination of feeling either good or bad
and feeling the emotion with a certain degree of intensity.
James Lang theory of emotion
Bodily arousal precedes the emotion.
A stimulus triggers a particular pattern of bodily arousal and we interpret the
particular pattern/configuration (it gives us feedback) to help us experience and label our emotions.
“I am afraid because I’m trembling.”
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Bodily arousal and emotion occur independently and simultaneously. We don’t use physiological feedback to help label our emotion.
“The dog makes me tremble AND I feel afraid”.
Schachter and singer two-factor theory of emotion
Bodily arousal and our conscious interpretation together lead to our emotional experience. We look to the environment for clues to help us interpret our bodily arousal.
“I label my trembling as fear because I see a ferocious dog and appraise the situation as being dangerous”.
Facial-feedback hypothesis
- Your face does more than display emotions – it also “feeds” your emotions
- Your own facial expression can trigger an emotions
- Eg, - if you smile for a while, your brain “reads” the muscular configurations in your face and uses that as feedback. Result – you feel happy!
