Flashcards
Emotion
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1What is an emotion?Emotion can be private, substantive experience that one can have without anyone else being aware of it
- 2Objective Behaviorscan be emotive in nature, frantic arm movements, facial expressions, angry shouting
- 3involuntary physiological changesrapid beating heart, shortness of breath, excessive sweating (autonomic nervous system arousal)
- 4Emotionsubjective experience that is usually accompanied by objective behaviors (interpreted within a certain context) as well as involuntary physiological changes
- 5Folk psychology = "common sens review"
- 6James-Lange theoryphysical autonomic arousal (heart races)
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particular emotion experienced - 7Cannon-Bard Theoryare these really independent?
bodily response and emotional experiences are simultaneous
(neither causes other)
--bodily changes are seperated from thought, however, its possible to affect physiology with thought - 8experiment: subjects injected with adrenaline, randomly assigned to groupspositive context - self report "elated"
negative context - self report "anger" - 9Schachter & Singer two factor theory1. When we experience an emotion, we experience a change in physiological arousal that is non-distinct, or not specific to any one emotion
2. we rely on context (the social, physical, psychological situation) to "label" the specific emotion that caused physiological arousal in the first place
the one's cognitive attribution of physiological arousal matters too - 10emotion & physiological responses
- 11many levels to emotions
- 12cerebrumconscious activities in the cerebrum affects hypothalamus control of the ANS
- 13hypothalamusintegration and command center for automatic (visceral) functions; involved in emotions
(increased heart-rate, sweaty palms0 - 14brainstemcontains major ANS reflex centers
(I can't handle this...last report of protection - 15—