Lecture 17 Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is the centralist model of emotion?
Stimulus -> perception of stimulus -> activation of emotion brain centers.
What is the low centralist view of emotion?
Changes in low-level perceptual assessment are the original source of emotion.
What is the high-level centralist view of emotion?
Reception of the event -> cognitive evaluation -> emotion
- Changes in high-level cognitive assessment are the original source of emotion.
What is the Peripheral ANS (James Lange) theory of emotion?
Changes of muscle tension and internal organs are the original source of emotion.
Valenced relates to ____________
goodness or badness.
What are “states?”
Multiple systems reflecting the same condition at the same time.
What is arousal?
A non-specific, intensifying & energizing aspect of emotion.
What is affect?
Diffuse state characterized by a general positive/negative orientation.
What is mood?
Prolonged, relatively weak and undifferentiated feeling state.
What is emotion?
Intense, short state differentiated in quality.
What did Darwin say about emotions?
Emotions are phenotypes that are subject to natural selection just line any other trait.
What is the Thatcher Illusion?
Shows that our face processing system is highly specialized
(so, images in non-canonical orientation are hard to differentiate).
Darwin believed in the _______ of emotional expression.
Universality.
A deaf and blind child along with the blind athlete test showed evidence for what, in regards to emotion?
The universality in production of expressions.
What were the results of the research on the Fore tribesman of Papua New Guinea?
Western participants could identify the expressions of emotion in photographs of people from very different, non-western cultures.
Spontaneous expression is associated with:
subcortical nuclei.
Voluntary expression is generated in _____________________
primary motor cortex.
Are some basic expressions possible without cortex?
Yes, as evidenced by an anencephalic infant and a patient in a vegetative state.
Where does facial paralysis come result from?
The underdevelopment of the VI and VII cranial nerves.
What was the procedure in the context and emotion study?
They’d show a picture of young boy on bike. Then either a picture of a car or of the boy handing a flower.
Then they show a picture of a woman screaming.
What is the Kuleshov effect?
The one of Hitchcock looking at a woman.
In the tennis player face study, what happened when they put a “lose face” on a “win body”?
Participants would say they won.
In the tennis player face study, what happened when they put a “win face” on a “lose body”?
The participants would say they lost.
What was the significance of the tennis player face experiment?
Body cues determine interpretation of facial expressions.
