Wk9 Flashcards
Body before thoughts - Emotions originate in peripheral nervous system response that the central nervous system then interprets.
James-Lange Theory
James-Lange Theory
Body before thoughts - Emotions originate in peripheral nervous system response that the central nervous system then interprets.
Cannon-Bard Theory
Body and thought are simultaneous - Emotion-inducing stimuli simultaneously elicits both an emotional experience such as fear and bodily responses such as sweaty palms.
Body and thought are simultaneous - Emotion-inducing stimuli simultaneously elicits both an emotional experience such as fear and bodily responses such as sweaty palms.
Cannon-Bard-Theory
Display Rules
Patterns of emotional expression considered appropriate within culture.
Positive affect
Pleasant emotions
Negative affect
Negative emotions
Schachter-Singer Theory
Emotion involves 2 factors - autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal. Body and thoughts create emotion
Psychodynamic perspective of emotion
People can be unconscious of their own emotional experience and unconscious emotional processes can influence thought, behaviour and health.
Cognitive perspective of emotion
Attribution, interpretation
Evolutionary perspective of emotion
Emotions serve an adaptive purpose. Darwin emphasised their communicative function. Emotion linked to motivation.
Adaptation-level phenomenon
When we adapt to a new situation and it becomes normal then something else looks better - we need more to feel that same thing.
6 facial expressions recognised cross-culturally
Fear, anger, disgust, surprise, happiness and sadness
Cognitive appraisals
Interpretations and meanings we attach to sensory stimuli
