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Wk 9 Emotion Psych1A

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What is emotion? Fully body-mind-behaviour response to stimuli and a pattern with cognitive, physiological and behavioural elements.
Advantages of emotion? These cognitive, physiological and behavioural reactions: increase chances of survival, assist formation of intimate relationships, important form of social communication, important part of life satisfaction and broaden our thinking and behaviour.
Four features of emotional states? Emotions are triggered by external/internal eliciting stimuli, emotional responses result from our appraisals of these stimuli, our bodies respond physiologically to our appraisals (evaluations) and emotions include behaviour tendencies.
Emotions are a mix of? Expressive behaviour, bodily arousal and conscious experience
Components of emotion? Eliciting stimuli, cognitive appraisal, physiological responses, expressive behaviours and instrumental behaviours.
James-Lange Theory? Body before thoughts; asserts that emotions originate in peripheral nervous system responses, which the central nervous system then interprets.
Cannon-Bard Theory? Body and thoughts are simultaneous. Argues that emotion-inducing stimuli simultaneously elicit both an emotional experience and bodily responses.
Issues with early theories? Different people and the same person can have different emotional reactions to the same stimuli.
Schachter-Singer Theory? Body and thoughts create emotion. Proposed that when you experience physiological arousal, you search your environment for an explanation.
Schachter theory: The experience of emotions depends on what 2 factors? Autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal.
Cognitive appraisals? Interpretations and meaning that we attach to sensory stimuli
Emotional expression? Refers to the overt behavioural signs of emotion.
Display rules? Are patterns of emotional expression considered appropriate within a culture, subculture or gender.
Adaption-level phenomeon? Is the tendency people have to quickly adapt to a new situation, until that situation becomes the norm. Once situation is normal, another new experience is needed it constantly raises the level for what is new/exciting as each new thing becomes norm.
Basic emotions? Such as anger, fear, happiness, sadness and disgust are common to human species and include characteristic physiological, subjective and expressive components.
Positive affect? Pleasant emotions, positive affect is associated with approach-oriented motives.
Negative affect? Unpleasant emotions, negative affect is associated with avoidance-oriented emotions.
How perspective view emotion: Psychodynamic Unconscious emotional processes can influence thought, behaviour and health.
How perspective view emotion: Evolutionary Suggests that emotion has both communicative and motivational functions. This theory is drawn from Darwin's view that emotions serve as an adaptive purpose.
How perspective view emotion: Cognitive The way people respond emotional depends on the attributions they make. (Schachter-Singer theory) Considers mood as relatively extended emotional states that impact how info is encodes, retrieved and how judgements/decisions are made.
How perspective view emotion: Behaviourist Suggests that approach and avoidance systems are associated with positive and negative affect.
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