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what is emotion

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an evaluative response- positive or negative which usually includes physiological arousal, it is a subjective experience, and includes behavioural expression

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what is affect in emotion

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pattern of behaviours that express emotions

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what is mood

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a more general emotional state that may or may not be externally expressed- related to emotion- may change how we express emotion

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what do elliot and gage show about emotion

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they display the link between, logic, reasoning, thinking and how you feel/emotion

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what is expression

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the overt signs of emotion- appearance of emotion

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what is emotional valence

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whether emotion is positive or negative and how much so. Includes pos and neg affect, which affects behaviour

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What is positive affect

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associated with pleasure seeking- approach oriented behaviour- makes us do it. Reinforcement. possibly left frontal lobe

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Negative affect

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related to avoidance behaviours- possibly in right frontal lobe

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what is discrete emotion theory

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humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are seperate from culture/enviroment and are universal, occur before thought, and have distinct physiological responses.

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what is darwins theory of emotion

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an evolutionary perspective which suggests that emotions serve adaptive purposes, therefore increasing chances of survival

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What is the adaptive value of disgust?

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makes you less likely to consume toxic substances

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What is the adaptive value of fear?

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eyes widen to help recognise and see dangerous things

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What is the adaptive value of jealously?

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fists clenched and teeth bared makes you ready to fight

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what are the seven primary emotions?

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Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise, Happiness, Sadness, Contempt

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what are secondary emotions

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When two or more primary emotions result in secondary ones.

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what are the physiological responses related to anger and fear

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increased heart rate, and change in digestive system speed

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what is the james lange theory of emotion?

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An emotional inducing stimuli causes a behavioural and bodily response which causes our subjective interpretation of this arousal as an emotion

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What is evidence for James-Lange theory of Emotion?

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Hohmann 1966 suggested that high spinal damage is associated withe reduced subjective emotion

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What is evidence AGAINST James-Lange theory of Emotion?

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Emotional responses can be faster than physiological responses and we are not always aware of bodily reaction

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Somantic Marker Theory of Emotion

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Gut reactions and physiological responses unconsciously directs our decision making and emotional reactions- However, people without an autonomic nerve system can still make decisions w/out bodily feedback

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Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

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Emotional and behavioural responses are elicited simultaneously and independently.

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What is evidence AGAINST Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?

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somatic and autonomic responses can influence emotional responses in some cases

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Appraisal Theory of Emotion (By Lazarus)

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emotion arises from appraisal of stimulus- suggests that emotions will vary depending on the significance of a stimulus. Starts with perception, followed by cognitive appraisal, emotion and THEN response

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Two Factor theory of emotion (Singer-Shacter)

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Perception, followed by general arousal, cognition and then emotion. Suggests, first there is unspecified autonomic arousal followed by cogntive interpretation based on events.

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evidence for two factor theory of emotion
people rate opposite as more attractive if they have just been on a rollercoaster.
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Evidence AGAINST two factory theory of emotion
emotion can occur without arousal
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What is reframing emotion?
reframing the meaning of an event before emotional response occurs can reduce negative effect of an emotion. This is learnt and helps to change the way we react
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What is suppression emotion?
Suppression after the emotional response leads to increased autonomic arousal. This is learnt and helps to change the way we react
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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
You are more likely to feel emotions that correspond to your facial features
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How is the amygdala involved in emotion?
learning, recognising and responding to emotion - specifically fear
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How is the hypothalamus involved in emotion?
regulates autonomic nervous system and endocrine system (via pituitary gland) which activates the flight or flight response
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How is the hippocampus involved in emotion?
Encoding new LTM's including emotional information through interaction with amygdala- influenced by context
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How is the cingulate cortex involved in emotion?
controlling and interpreting emotional experience and interpreting/engaging in social behavior-
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What is Kluver-Bucy Syndrom
bilateral removal/ damage to the amydgala- major symptoms include lack of fear, urge to put things in the mouth, memory loss, and hyper sexuality
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How is the prefrotalcortex involved in emotion?
cognitive appraisal of emotional information, conscious decisions based on emotional information, interpreting meaning of peripheral responses, regulation of emotional responses and expression
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How is the insula cortex involved in emotion?
involved in recognition/ experience of disgust and plays a broad role in interpretation and integrating affective and cognitive processes.
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What is the high and low road pathways?
involved in emotion, low road= fast subcortical pathway via thalamus-rapid threat detection High road= slower cortical pathway, caused more complex analysis - brings info back into amygdala
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what is the effect of mood on cognition?
influence memory capacity, problem solving, decision making, judgements, inferences and predictions, bias our attention, expectations and recall
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what is the mere exposure effect?
we like more familiar stimuli, due to easier to process?
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Caveats of high and low load pathways
emotion activates widespread areas of brain ( not just amygdala& prefrontal cortex), emotion areas also involved in other processes, no brain structures r linked 2 one emotion, same stim differen activaton in other people
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effect of posture
can communicate emotions largely in unconcious ways
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effect of gestures
can convery emotion through illustrators or manipulators
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effect of emblems
more culture specific gestures eg. thumbs up
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effect of non-verbal gestures
often a powerful cue that we are trying to hide an emotion
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effect of microexpression
brief 1/15th-1/25th second expressions which occur when trying to conceal emotion
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what are proxemics:
study of personal space- correlated with emotional distance, moderate cultural sex and ages differeences
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four levels of person space distance
1. public 12ft 2. social 4-12ft 3. personal 1.5-4ft 4. intimate 0-1.5ft
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what is the broaden and build theory of happiness
happiness predisposes us 2 think more openly allowing us to see the big picture - optimists tend to be happier than pesimists and tend to cope better with bad life events and may live longer
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people are happier when..
married, education, religious, do exercise, many close friends, flow, reasonable income, giving, gratitude, individualistic cultures
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people are not necessarily happier from..
experiences, money, youth, never being worried
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what is affective forcasting
making decisions about a life event and estimating hoow happy that choice will make us
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what is durability bias
overestimating the long term impact of events on our mood
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what is the hedonic treadmill effect?
the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.- we bounce up and down a set point of happiness
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what is self esteme
a persons evaluation of their worth- many people think this causes unhappiness but no scientific evidence for this- low relationship to sucess
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what are positive illusions of self esteeme
the tendency to percieve ourselves more positivly than others do
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what is positive psychology
emphasises human strengths, resilience, coping, life satisfaction, love and happiness

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