Emotion and mood

Question 1

components of an emotional response

Answer 1

1. conscious feelings
2. actions
3. physiological arousal
4. motivational programmes

Question 2

Name 3 functions of emotion

Answer 2

1. coordinates responces
2. motivation
3. helps solve adaptive behaviours
   - ->cooperation, mating, avoiding predators

Question 3

name 3 properties of basic emotions

Answer 3

innate, rapid onset, consistent across cultures

Question 4

Ekmans 6 basic emotions

Answer 4

anger
disguist
fear
joy
sadness
surprise

Question 5

describe Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions

Answer 5

puts emotions into 8 categorise, cone going downwards with decreasing intensity
shows opposites and blends

Question 6

what parts of the body mediate emotion

Answer 6

peripheral autonomic endocrine motor

Question 7

Is expressiveness universal?

Answer 7

yes but cultural differences

Question 8

role of amygdala

Answer 8

learnt emotional responses, fear pleasure

Question 9

James Langes theory

Answer 9

emotional is a cognitive response to info from periphery

Question 10

Cannon Bard

Answer 10

physiological changes and emotional feelings = independant !

Question 11

Schatler Siger

Answer 11

emotional felt then physiological arousal - person uses immediate environment to label the arousal

Question 12

describe autism

Answer 12

repetitive behaviours, neurodevelopmental, pervasive, abnorm social interaction + communication

Question 13

what causes autism

Answer 13

less mirror neurones in the INF frontal gyrus

Question 14

describe psychopathy

Answer 14

abnormal emotional response, disturbed social interactions, dont learn from punishment, selfish dominant superficial cold