Emotion Flashcards

Flashcards about Emotion from Psychology 1A lecture notes.

Emotion

A full body-mind-behavior response to stimuli, with cognitive, physiological, and behavioral elements.

Mood

A general state, not a response to a specific stimuli.

Attitude

A predisposition.

Elements of Emotion

Bodily arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience (thoughts and labeling of the emotion).

Four Features of Emotional States

External or internal eliciting stimuli, appraisals of these stimuli, physiological responses, and behavior tendencies .

Components of Emotion

Eliciting stimuli, cognitive appraisal, physiological responses, expressive behaviors, and instrumental behaviors.

James-Lange Theory

Conscious experience of emotion results from one's perception of autonomic arousal. Emotion is our conscious awareness of our physiological responses to stimuli.

Cannon-Bard Theory

Physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously.

Schachter’s Two-Factor Theory

The experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal.

Cognitive Appraisals

Interpretations and meaning that we attach to sensory stimuli, influencing how we express and act on our emotions.

Hemispheric Activation & Emotion

Positive 'approach' emotions (joy, love, goal-seeking) correlate with left frontal lobe activity, while negative 'withdrawal' emotions (disgust, fear, anger, depression) correlate with right hemisphere activity.

Brain Structures and Emotion

Involves interactions between several brain areas, with cognitive appraisal processes engaging the cortex and regulation depending on the prefrontal cortex.

Expressive Behaviours

Observable emotional displays that can evoke similar responses in others and have genetic elements.

Detecting Emotion in Others

People read emotional content in the eyes and faces. Introverts are better at detecting emotions. Women are more accurate judges of expressions.

Biopsychosocial Perspective of Emotion

Biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences.

Gender and Perception of Emotion

People attribute women's emotions to their dispositions and men's emotions to their circumstances.

Culture and Emotion

Collectivist cultural emotion is based more on assessment of social worth, outer world, self-other relationships

Early Development of Emotion

Most emotions are present in infancy, excluding contempt, shame, and guilt.

Two Dimensions of Emotion

Positive/pleasant vs. negative/unpleasant and low arousal vs. high arousal.

Anger

A "short madness" that gives us energy and initiative to take action when necessary, but persistent anger can cause more harm than the original source.

Ways to Manage Anger

Distraction, constructive action, problem-solving, exercise, verbal expression, and allowing others to be wrong.

Happiness

The feel-good, do-good phenomenon: when in a good mood, we do more for others. The reverse is also true: doing good feels good.

Money and Happiness

Money seems to buy happiness when it lifts people out of extreme poverty.

Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

We are happier compared to our past condition, then we adapt, form a 'new normal' level, and most people must get another boost to feel the same satisfaction.

Correlates of Happiness

Have high self-esteem, be optimistic, outgoing, and agreeable, have close friendships or a satisfying marriage, and have work and leisure that engage their skills.