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| A feeling state characterized by 1)physiological arousal, 2)expressive behaviors and 3)cognitive interpretation/appraisal |
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| Emotions stems from the physiological arousal tt is triggered by an emotion-eliciting stimulus |
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| An emotion-eliciting stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological arousal and the experience of emotion |
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| Role of brain in emotions |
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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 |
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| Patterns of physiological arousal |
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| Most emotions make the heart beat faster to body temp. to increase, but fear makes blood flow decrease and body temp decrease |
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| 2 kinds of behavioral (nonverbal) expression |
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| Facial Feedback hypothesis |
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| Changes in facial expression can produce corresponding changes in emotion |
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| Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion |
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| 2 factors necc for emotion to be experienced are psychological arousal and cognitive interpretation, and both must be present for emotional experience |
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| Dutton and Aron study of wobbly and sturdy bridges- heightened physiological arousal leads can be wrongly recognized as result of another experience |
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| the tendency to imagine alternative outcomes that might have occured but did not |
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| Is cognition necc for emotional reactions to occur? |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| Opponent-process theory of emotion |
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| An event triggers a primary emotion (unlearned response) which in turn produces an opponent state (learned response opposite of the primary state) |
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