Emotion Lecture Flashcards
(21 cards)
What three places does emotion come from?
World
Body
Mind
James-Lange theory of emption
Emotions are feelings arising from physiological changes rather than being the cause
Cannon-bard theory of emotions
Emotion-arousing events trigger both feelings of emotions and physiological changes as a result of the thalamus sending a stimulus for response
Schactter-Singer two factor model of emotions
Physiological changes play a causal role in the generations of feelings, no one to one mapping between emotions and distinct autonomic neural systems
Lazarus cognitive-mediation theory of emotions
Emotions are determined by our appraisal of the stimulus, significant and sources
What system creates physiological events like heart rate and sweating?
Autonomic nervous system
What results from ANS response
Emotions
What can impact facial expression perception?
The inability to move one’s face
Early Cognitive psychology of emotions
Physiological responses play a causal role in generating theories however evidence argues against distinct patterns for emotions
What are the two major theories of organising emotions
Basic emotion theory
Constructive theory of emotion
Basic emotion theory
Emotion related phenomenon involve 5-10 qualitatively distinct underlying states
Constructive theory of emotions
Emotion related phenomena involve two or three underlying dimensions of neurophysiological response
What are three functions of emotions?
Adaptation
Communication
Well being and mental health
Facial expression of emotion are
Not arbitrary configurations slept social communication, but may instead have originated in altering the sensory interface with the physical world
How many emotions do we experience?
Over 40 psychological states, six or seven universal categories of emotion
What is the semantic space of emotions?
Judgements of similarity of 600 different English emotion words suggests than an emotion conceptual space has 49 dimensions
How does the body react to emotions?
Different emotions are consistently associated with statistically separable bodily sensation maps
Are emotions universal?
Certain configuration of facial emotions are universally recognised as emotional expressions because they evolved to to signal emotional information
What is the facial action coding system?
A common/classic view that emotions are reliably and specifically signalled with distinctive configurations of facial emotions
Cross cultural differences in emotion recognition
Diversity in how perceives make sense of facial movements
What does the theory of constructed emotion suggest?
The traditional approach incorrectly assumes emotional concepts we use in language must be distinct in material. Rather group together to specific instances
