What is Emotion?

Question 1

Are emotions easily defined?

Answer 1

No

Emotions may be subjective

There are complicated emotions (determined, focused, etc.)

Question 2

What is an alternative view on music inducing emotions?

Answer 2

What we think that we hear in music or how music makes us feel might not strictly speaking be an emotion

Question 3

What are the two components of emotion?

Answer 3

Affective component

Cognitive component

Question 4

What does the affective component of emotions include?

Answer 4

Physiological arousal (e.g., fear)

Question 5

What does the cognitive component of emotions include?

Answer 5

The identification of the cause of the arousal and/or labelling of the arousal itself

How we label and talk about emotions

Question 6

What are the 6 basic emotions proposed by Ekman (1992)?

Answer 6

Happy
Sad
Fear
Disgust
Anger
Surprise

Question 7

What are 2 general categories of emotion?

Answer 7

Positive

Negative

Question 8

Can opposite emotions be experienced at the same time?

Answer 8

No

Some might disagree and say that they can

Emotions blend to produce complex emotions (e.g., Joy & Acceptance = Love)

Question 9

Are emotions universally recognised?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

How are emotions conveyed?

Answer 10

Through facial expressions and other social interactions

Can be interpreted to different extents by some people

Question 11

What can be a definition of emotion?

Answer 11

Feelings that accompany thinking

Question 12

What are 3 components of emotion?

Answer 12

Physiological arousal to a stimulus (stimuli)

Behavioural response (response)

Conscious experience (explanation)

BUT different researchers disagree on this

Question 13

What are the 2 agreed components of emotion?

Answer 13

Physiological component

Cognitive component

Question 14

What debate is there surrounding the 2 agreed components of emotion?

Answer 14

Does the physiological or cognitive component come first?

Are we labelling the arousal that we’re feeling or the actual event that we are perceiving?

Question 15

In fear, what is the arousal and what is the event?

Answer 15

Arousal = I feel fear

Event cues = I must be afraid

Question 16

What are 3 theories of basic emotions?

Answer 16

James-Lange Theory of Emotions

Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotions

Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotions

Question 17

What does the James-Lange Theory of Emotions propose?

Answer 17

Stimuli leads to a physiological response to the stimuli. Response leads to forming an explanation for it. Explanation leads to emotion formation.

Perception of the response leads to the identification of the emotion.

Question 18

What does the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotions propose?

Answer 18

Stimuli leads to a simultaneous physiological response and emotion.

Response and emotion happen at the same time.

A physiological response occurs alongside (or before) the emotion and any other responses we are having

Question 19

Which theories of emotion disagree?

Answer 19

James-Lange Theory of Emotions

Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotions

Question 20

What does the Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion propose?

Answer 20

Combines ideas from James-Lange and Cannon-Bard

Argues for quantity and quality of arousal

Question 21

What does quantity of arousal mean?

Answer 21

Refers to the degree of the physiological response

Question 22

What does quality of arousal mean?

Answer 22

Refers to the cognitive attribution to the context of the emotion (e.g., how you explain what is happening)

Question 23

What is an example of an event in which the Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion would differentiate the emotion felt?

Answer 23

Wolf running at you

Puppy running at you

The context of the wider situation is important in emotion.

Question 24

What is the order of stimuli, response, explanation, and emotion for the Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion?

Answer 24

Stimuli –> Response AND emotion –> Explanation –> Emotion

Question 25

What would you expect if music is actually connected to emotion?

Answer 25

You would expect a physiological response