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| - An identifiable feeling state involving physiological arousal, a cognitive appraisal of the situation or stimulus causing that internal body state, and an outward behavior expressing the state |
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| What is the three classic theories of emotion? |
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How does the brain relate to the brain?
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- The amygdala is the brain structure most closely associated with fear
- The cerebral cortex regulates the amygdala based on its interpretation of the situation
- Emotions are lateralized in the two cerebral hemispheres
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| What is the fast and slow pathway to the brain? |
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| How are emotions regulated? |
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- Emotion regulation: the use of cognitive and behavioral strategies to influence one’s emotional experience.
- Reappraisal: a strategy that involves changing one’s emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion-eliciting stimulus.
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How are emotions expressed?
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- Basic emotions are unlearned and universal
- Universality hypothesis: emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone.
- Facial-feedback hypothesis is the idea that muscular movements involved in certain facial expressions produce the corresponding emotions
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