Study frågor 10 emotions Flashcards
How do emotions develop?
Biological responses and physiological reactions makes emotions develop. But also cognitive appraisal, how you interpreted situations can create emotions.
Describe Ekman’s 7 basic emotions with their characteristics.
Happiness, anger, contempt, disgust, surprise, sadness and fear. ‘
Happiness: feelings that are enjoyed.
Anger: The response of interference with our pursuit of a goal we care about.
Contempt: feeling morally superior to another person.
Disgust: repulsion by sight, smell or taste, or someones actions.
Surprise: response of unexpected event, it’s the briefest emotion.
Sadness: response to a the loss of a object or a person.
Fear: respons to a threat of harm, physical or psychological.
According to Ekman, what is the common characteristics for all basic emotions
The emotion has to be distinguished from other emotions and the emotion has to have evolved through adaptation.
What do negative and positive emotions mean, and what are the differences between them?
Negative emotions are liked to avoidance of behaviours and objects
positive emotions are liked to approaching behaviours.
Negative emotions are more distinct and there is more of them then positive emotions and your more likely to be attentive to a angry looking face then a happy looking face.
What was Darwin’s contribution to the study of emotion
emotions are expressed primarily in the face,
emotions are separate entities,
emotions are universal and not unique to only humans.
According to Lazarus, how are emotions related to certain actions?
Cognitive motivational relational theory. 3 stages.
Appraisal: how should I act in this situation
Core rational theme : what emotion should I generate, using your previous experience in similar situations to generate the correct emotion.
Action tendencies: how did a actually act
What is the high and low road of emotions
Low : zajonc and ledoux
high road: lazarus
Low road: zajonc ledoux
Simple emotions like fear or anger are processed without thinking and emotions can occur before cognition takes place. Exemple, we fear snakes when we know its harmless.
High road: lazarus
Complex emotions like love, guilt, happiness involve how we appraise the situation.
According to Tomkins, what is a scene and script
Scene: the basic units of experience
Script: multiple similar scenes are often buddled together and the patterns and rules that emerge from the is called scripts. Scripts are how experiences are remembered and combined with other memoirs to mark meaningful predictions.
Are gestures innate or where do they come from? How do they know that?
No they are not innate they are cultural, they mean different things in different cultures. They know this because gestures differ from culture to culture.
Provide an example of a personality trait specific to the experience of emotion.
Neuroticism: a lot of negative emotions like sadness
Openness: easy to happiness.
