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Positive and negative feeling states consisting of patterns of:
Physiological arousal
Expressive behaviors
Conscious experience |
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| Descibe the James-Lange Theory of Emotion. |
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| stimulus->behavior->emotion. the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. |
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| What is the facial feedback hypothesis? |
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| Muscles of your face connect to emotional parts of the brain and can change how you feel. |
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| Describe the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. |
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| Cannon and Bard argued that the emotion arises first and then stimulates typical behavior. your heart begins pounding as you experience fear; one does not cause the other. |
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| Describe Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion and Lazarus's cognitive appraisal theory of emotion. |
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| Schachter's theory views emotion as having two components: physiological arousal and cognition. according to theory, "cognitions are used to interpret the meaning of physiological reactions to outside events." Cognitive appraisals determine if an event will be perceived as stressful.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Appraisal |
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| What are 3 brain structures involved in emotion. |
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amygdala
prefrontal cortex
hypothalamus
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| Describe research results of Joseph LeDoux. |
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| used blind rats to show the amygdalas role in unconscious emotion. |
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| How do level of arousal and task complexity combine to affect task performance? |
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| performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or well-learned tasks. facing a difficult exam, high anxiety may disrupt performance. Teaching anxious students how to relax before an exam can therefore enable them to perform better. |
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| What exactly is a lie detector test and what are the major assumptions behind its use? what kinds of errors by experts are most likely? |
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| it is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, breathing rhythms, body temperature and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the theory that false answers will produce distinctive measurements. rather than a "test", the method amounts to an inherently unstandardizable interrogation technique whose accuracy cannot be established. |
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| what considerations and research evidence challenge the validity of the lie detector test?What kinds of errors by experts are most likely? |
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| Although the instrument is essentially the same for all applications, the types of individuals tested, training of the examiner, purpose of the test, and types of questions asked, among other factors, can differ substantially. A polygraph test requires that the examiner infer deception or truthfulness based on a comparison of the person’s physiological responses to various questions. For example, there are differences between the testing procedures used in criminal investigations and those used in personnel security screening. Second, the research on polygraph validity varies widely in terms of not only results, but also in the quality of research design and methodology. |
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| What does research evidence suggest regarding the issue of whether facial expressions of emotion are learned or biologically determined? |
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| the evidence that across culture emotions were the same suggest that emotion is biological. |
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