Emotion and Brain Injury

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

They are cause by a specific event, brief in duration, specific and numerous in nature and usually come with a distinct expression

Question 2

Define Affects

Answer 2

A broad range of feelings that people experience, can be positive or negative. Affective states = emotions/ moods

Question 3

What is a mood?

Answer 3

Cause is often general and unclear, lasts longer than emotions, more general generally not indicated by distinct expressions and is cognitive in nature

Question 4

What are the three components of emotions?

Answer 4

Behavioural, physiological and conscious

Question 5

What is the behaviour component of emotions responsible for?

Answer 5

Expressing moods and emotions

Question 6

How does the behaviour component of emotion express emotions?

Answer 6

Muscular movements appropriate to the situation- posture, gestures, attack behaviours ( fight/flight/freeze)

Question 7

What is the physiological component of emotion responsible for?

Answer 7

Is a part of evolutionary development, is responsible for decreased or increased arousal

Question 8

What is the conscious component of emotion responsible for?

Answer 8

It is the subject expression of emotions or moods

Question 9

How does the conscious component express emotions?

Answer 9

A sensation of something within ourselves, combinations of our body and minds

Question 10

What are the dimensional classifications of emotion?

Answer 10

Valence - arousal model has received much empirical attention
Valence - positive VS negative
Arousal - the physiological and/or subjective intensity of the emotion
Plutchik’s wheel of emotions