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• Emotion
o Historical definition: |
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| to move from one place to another |
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| refers to agitated or aroused state |
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| o Charles Darwin: the expression on the emotions in man and animals 1872 |
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• Body language communicates meaning btw individuals
Ie emotional states.
• Emotional display signals potential behavior |
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| • Emotional display signals potential behavior ex |
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Ex: lip quivering you’re about to cry, angry might signal a fight
• Baring teeth
• Smiling: you are more approachable |
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| • Allows others to alter their behavior based on what those around them are feeling |
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| • Clicker: one purpose of emotions from bio pesrpective: |
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| Emotional display signals potential behavior |
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| o James-Lange Theory 1884 |
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| • Bodily changes create emotional state • Reflexive behaviors to dangerous situations, emotions come later |
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o James-Lange Theory 1884
• Perception -> |
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| bodily changes -> emotion -> behavior |
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| • Clicker: grizzly bears esape according to the james-lange theory: |
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| Your HR increase, causes fear, then hide |
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| • Facial feedback hypothesis |
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Feeling emotion that you are presenting
• Ex: “grin and bear it” |
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| criticism to james lange theory |
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. Organisms still exhibit emotions without bodily sensations 3. Many organs are fairly insensitive to the environment
4. Changes in internal organs are slow
5. Creating arousal does not lead to an emotion |
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| Organisms still exhibit emotions without bodily sensations |
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• increased heart rate happens when you’re scared, angry, exercise, in love- same sensation different emotions. Physiological arousal bleeds over
• ppl w/spinal cord injuries (can’t feel physiological sensations) but can still feel emotion (clicker, evidence against James-lange theory) |
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| Changes in internal organs are slow |
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| • almost get hit by a car, 10mins later your HR is still really fast. Breif emotions, but long lasting physiological state |
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| Creating arousal does not lead to an emotion |
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| • i.e. injecting adrenaline= arousal but no emotions |
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| • Walter Cannon’s Emergency Theory |
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| o Reflexive changes in the body and emotions sum to generate behavior |
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Walter Cannon’s Emergency Theory
perception -> |
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| perception -> bodily changes & emotions -> behavior |
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| • Walter Cannon’s Emergency Theory evidence |
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| thalamus integrates sensory info with info from emotional areas of the brain |
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| Cognitive Physiological theory of Emotion |
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| Cognitive Physiological theory of Emotion |
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o Need physiological and cognitive attributions are necessary for full emotion
o Logic: arousal is usually explained by the situation (cognitive label) |
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| o So what happens when unexplained arousal occurs in cognitive phsyiological theory of emotion ? |
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| ppl feel what they attribute their physiological state to vitamin suplement study |
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| cog phys vitamin supplement experiment |
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| • Gave ppl “vit supplement” that was actually adrenaline. HR increased. Participants didn’t feel any strong emotions. Then they did it w/ someone else in the room running around w/hula hoop and laughing- participants tried to come up with cognitive label- they cognitively created feeling happy. Then they did it with someone in the room that was angry stomping and kicking, participants reported they were angry. |
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coffee and the cog phys theroy
Rx drugs |
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| physiological change, not cogntively aware that you drank too much coffeeo Rx drugs- pain killers feel loopy giggly no reason |
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| • Criticism to cog-phys theory of emotion |
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o Cognitive attribution alone is sufficient to create emotional state (feel emotion bc of a thought not physiological change)
• Ex: start thinking about you havent done- have emotional stress response
• Ex: force yourself to cry: think about something sad |
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