Home > Flashcards > Psychology > Kassin Chapter 12

Details Title: Kassin Chapter 12 Description: Emotion Total Flash Cards: 13 Created: 04/12/2005 17:53:16	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Emotion: 3 components Definition A feeling state characterized by 1)physiological arousal, 2)expressive behaviors and 3)cognitive interpretation/appraisal Term James-Lange Theory Definition Emotions stems from the physiological arousal tt is triggered by an emotion-eliciting stimulus Term Cannon-Bard Theory Definition An emotion-eliciting stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological arousal and the experience of emotion Term Role of brain in emotions Definition Fear: amygdala Sympathetic nervous system: involutary activities of various organs and mobilizes body for fight or flight Parasympathetic nervous system: reduces arousal and restores body to pre-energized state Term Patterns of physiological arousal Definition Most emotions make the heart beat faster to body temp. to increase, but fear makes blood flow decrease and body temp decrease Term 2 kinds of behavioral (nonverbal) expression Definition 1)facial 2)body language Term Facial Feedback hypothesis Definition Changes in facial expression can produce corresponding changes in emotion Term Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion Definition 2 factors necc for emotion to be experienced are psychological arousal and cognitive interpretation, and both must be present for emotional experience Term Misattribution Definition Dutton and Aron study of wobbly and sturdy bridges- heightened physiological arousal leads can be wrongly recognized as result of another experience Term Counterfactual thinking Definition the tendency to imagine alternative outcomes that might have occured but did not Term Is cognition necc for emotional reactions to occur? Definition acc to LeDoux and Lazarus, yes because w/o cognitive activity to guide us, we can not grasp the significance of the even/situations nor adapt to them Term Affective forecasting Definition The process by which pple predict how they wld feel in the future, after various positive and negatve life events.. durability bias being one phenomenon (overestimating duration of one's emotional reactions) Term Opponent-process theory of emotion Definition An event triggers a primary emotion (unlearned response) which in turn produces an opponent state (learned response opposite of the primary state)