Chapter 11 PSYC notes

Physiological changes, cognitive processes, subjective feeling

Components of emotion

Verbal and nonverbal communication, especially facial expressions

Emotion expression

Ekman identified six emotions; some add contempt, pride, while others found 18 emotions distinguished. This is known as?

Universality of facial expressions

What part of the brain evaluates sensory info, determining emotional importance, making decisions on approach or withdrawal

Amygdala

What is the left region of the brain thats responsible for motivation response (Action tendency).

Prefrontal cortex regions

Activated when observing others, involved in empathy, imitation, mood contagion. More likely in ppl u like

Mirror neurons

Facial muscles sending emotion messages to the brain

Facial feedback

Produce physiological arousal during emotional experiences

Epinephrine and norepinephrine

James theory separates processes, Cannon theory says they happen simultaneously, Schachter's theory emphasizes cognitive appraisal. These are called?

Theories of fear

Culture strongly influences ________ that regulate when, how, and where a person may express (or suppress) emotions. Ex funeral sad cause loss / celebrating life funeral

It also governs body language: nonverbal signals of body movement, posture, gesture, and gaze

Display rules

When under stress the hypothalamus sends messages to the endocrine glands along two major pathways:

The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system is activated, producing the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine from the inner part of the adrenal gland.

The hypothalamus initiates activity along the HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal cortex) resulting in the secretion of cortisol from the adrenal cortex

Internal locus of control belief

What happens to you is bc you made it happen, you tried hard to get what you got and thats why you got it. ex studying hard, doing good bc of that

______ coping concentrates on the emotions the problem has caused.

Emotion-focused

______ coping is focused on solving the problem.

Problem-focused

Risk factors for illness

Environmental, experiential, biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors

What is the right region of the brain that is specialized for the impulse to withdraw or escape (as in disgust or fear).

Prefrontal region

_______ is an expression of an emotion, often because of a role requirement, that a person does not really feel.

Emotion work

Environment stressors such as heat, cold, toxins, and danger disrupt the body’s ______

Equilibrium

What is the external locus of control belief?

Things are out of your control. Always blame others or things. Ex - doing bad on test bc teacher made test hard.