Emotion Flashcards
(15 cards)
Lazarus believes
that motivation and emotion are always linked, we only react when our motives are affected
Basic emotion theories
Emotions are hardwired, have distinct neural, experiential and behavioural correlates
Ekman’s list of basic emotions
Fear, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, Happy, Disgust
Dimensional approach to emotion
Emotions do not result from independent neural systems, but all emotions can be placed along activity of two dimension; valence and arousal
The scale of arousal and valence and emotions based along their realms of activation is called?
The Circumplex model
Cognitive appraisal
Cognitive evaluation and interpretation of the situation
Primary appraisal
Emotion elicting stimulus is positive, negative, stressful or detrimental to wellbeing
Secondary appraisal
The individual’s cnsideration of their abilitites and resources to cope with the stimulus elicting thing
High road to amygdala
The stimulus travels through sensory thalamus, to sensory cortex, to amygdala (which causes emotional response)
Low road to amygdala
The stimulus travels through sensory thalamus straight to amygdala, skippind the sensory cortex, thus our body can repair for action faster than we can comprehend what we see.
James-Lange Somatic theory
Physiological events are causal in the feeling of emotion, awareness of our physical change is the emotion.
The Cannon-Bard theory
Subjective experience of emotion and physiological arousal are independent reponses to an emotion arousing stimulus.
interception
brain’s perception fo the current state of the body
conceptualisation
our knowledge learnt from culture, development, language… is used to give introspective sensations meaning.
Theory of constructed emotion / Conceptual act theory
past experience, organized as concepts, guides our actions and gives our sensations meaning every waking moment. By Lisa Feldman-Barrett
