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Quick emotional appraisal of the stimulus (fear, anger, disgust)
Appraisal: an evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus. |
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| The cerebral cortex and emotion |
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Inhibiting and regulating emotion.
Emotional reappraisal (changing the meaning of emotional stimuli)
"Within crisis there is opportunity"
Regulation: the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
Reappraisal: changing one's emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion-eliciting stimulus. |
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Stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain.
Emotions are responses to physiological reactions.
Specific reactions produce specific emotions (crying -> sadness, smiling -> happiness) |
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| A stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain. |
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| Schacter-Singer "Two-factor" Theory |
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| Emotions are inferences about the causes of undifferentiated physiological arousal. |
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Emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone.
6 universal emotions-anger, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear |
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| Facial Feedback Hypothesis |
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| Emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify. |
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Norms for the control of emotional expression.
Intensification-exaggerating an emotion.
Deintensification-downplaying an emotion.
Masking-expressing a "different" emotion.
Neutralizing-expressing a "lack" of emotion. |
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The notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
"Flow"- satisfaction fromt he optimal union of attention, motivation, and performance (intense concentration, meaningful task) |
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| Internal biological needs motivate action, goal is homeostasis, self-regation process. |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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Basic needs must be satisfied before "higher" needs.
Physiological needs->safety and security needs->belongingness and love needs->esteem needs->need for self actualization |
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Set point theory- a weight level that the body gravitates toward.
Obesity= body mass index > 30 |
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| Human sexual response cycle: the stages of physiological arousal during sexual activity. Excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasm phase, resolution phase. |
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Intrinsic motivation: motivation to take actions that are rewarding themselves.
Extrinsic motivation: motivation to take actions that lead to reward. |
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| Approach vs. Avoidance Motivation |
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Approach: motivation to experience a positive outcome (promotion).
Avoidance: motivation not to experience a positive outcome (prevention). |
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