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| For how long has emotion been viewed skeptically? |
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| What did philosophers view Emotion as and what did they think we'd benefit from? |
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| emotions was irrational and destructive, we'd benefit from lack of emotions |
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| What did Aristotle say about emotions? |
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| Emotions are counter to reason |
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| What did Hobbes say about humans' nature? |
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| Humans have a dog-eat-dog nature. |
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| What did Kant say about emotions? |
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| Emotions make us tender-hearted |
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| What countered the views of philosophers in regards to how emotion are viewed? |
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| scientific Study of emotions |
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| What three studies/researches were the foundation for Emotion Research? |
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1. Attachment research
2. Human Ethology Eibl-Eibesfeldt
3. Paul Ekman's study of faces |
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| Why is attachment research important for emotion? |
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| Human babies need emotion to communicate. As it is their only means of communication, it is vital to their survival. |
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| What did Paul Ekman's research discover? |
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| That human expressions are universal. |
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| Who was the first to define emotion and at what time period? |
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| What are emotions a reaction to? [Broad question] |
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| a specific event that takes place |
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| What are the four aspects to emotional States? |
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1. cognition [the appraisal of the situation)
2. Feeling
3. Physiological changes
4. behavior |
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| What happens when components to emotion do not match? |
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| What is the difference between mood and emotion? |
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| mood has no specific trigger and is longer lasting, emotion has a specific elicitor and a short duration |
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| Are physiological changes in response to emotion elicited from parasympathetic or sympathetic activity? |
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| What was Charles Darwin's method when studying the expression of emotions in humans and animals? |
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| observation and asking missionaries about the different expressions they observed |
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| Emotions are ______ _______ to the environment. |
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| What has responses to the environment done for humans evolutionarily? |
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| enhanced our ability to survive |
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| What do emotions do for your responses? What does that imply? |
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| Emotions organize your response, implying that emotions are functional |
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| According to the James-Lange Theory what do emotions arise from? |
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| According to the James-Lange Theory, what does everything we feel have its own of? |
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| According to the James-Lange Theory, how is the feeling of emotion and physiological response related? |
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| Feelings are a perception of the body's action and physiological arousal |
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| What is another name for the Schachter-Singer Theory? |
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| "cognitive arousal" or "2-factor" theory |
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| What is the main tenant of Schachter-Singer Theory? |
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| What is the model of the Schachter-Singer Theory? |
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Situation->Arousal->Appraisal->Subjective Feeling
Situation->Arousal->Appraisal->Situation and then the cycle starts over |
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| IN the study in which men walked across bridges and encountered a pretty woman, what did the men attribute their arousal to? instead of what? Which group of men were most likely to call the woman for a date? |
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| They wrongly attribute their arousal to attraction rather than fear. The men on the dangerous bridge were more likely to call the woman for a date |
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| What is appraisal theory? |
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| individuals perception causes particular emotional responses. Emotionis experienced as a result of what you THINK is going on in your environment |
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| What is the contextual theory of emotion? |
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| Situation affects appraisal which elicits emotion |
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