315 chapter 12 Flashcards
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Descartes
emotion instills a goal, in person consciousness that emotion then prepares the body/mind to achieve the goal of emotion, hence emotions serve as motivation
different appraisals
same event produce different emotions
same appraisals
different events produce same emotion
amygdala
part of brain that conducts a guide and crude evaluation of novel situations for persons well being, also appraise stimulus below level of consciousness
cortex
involved in later more extensive appraisal
negative stimulus
detected sooner then positive stimulus
fear faces
recognized sooner then happy faces
subliminal priming
presenting an emotion stimulus below a persons conscious awareness; can affect emotion channel (smile muscles)
extrapyramidal system
spontaneous expressions emerge form an evolutionary older part of brain
cortical motor strip
voluntary expressions
extrapyramidal system and cortical motor strip function
send information to facial nerve which connects on facial muslce
blind facial expressions
innate, less refined because lack of practice and don’t benefit from feedback; David matsumoto
emotion recognition
studies show that expressions of emotion all recognized similarly the world over; 63-96%, members identify expressions more accurately for own culture group then for different groups
dialect facial expression
vary by country, modified to meet social requirement of specific culture
read out hypothesis
a facial expression conveys on individual emotional feeling to another individual
behavioral ecology hypothesis
facial expressions are in service to ones social motive to influence others; facials expressions need not be linked to feelings
social facial vasodilation
certain social situation, small blood vessels of face and neck expand to permit increased blood blow into those areas, visible blushing in people with pale skin
blushing
evaluated, scrutinized, stared at, criticized, praised excessively, violation of social norms, considered incompetent, rude, immoral
blush for appeasement
person cares about social normas and want to repair any social damage that was caused in order to deter retardation; blush to escape unwanted attention by casting ones gaze downward to escape scrutiny from others and make others less noticeable to blushing individual
display rule
learned social conventions that specify what voluntary facial expressions are to be exhibited in specific situation; people differ in extent they feel rules should be followed
display rule assessment inventory
measure the extent that people feel they should alter their facial expressions in presence of family member, close friends, collegues and strangers in various situations
motive for action
function of emotions is to induce the individual to deal specifically with emotional event
action readiness
impluse/urge to behave in a particular manner, state of preparedness for course of behavior to achieve the aim/goal of an emotion
affective realism hypothesis
persons perceptions is based on incoming information + prediction by the brain of what that’ll be, predictions are derived from an individual affect thats the result of prior experience from listening to music, viewing affective faces, or smelling odors