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| defined in terms of four components: 1) interpret some stimulus, 2) have a subjective feeling like fear or happiness, 3) experience physiological respones like heart rate, 4) show observable behaviors like crying. |
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| Peripheral Theories of Emotions |
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| emphasize that body changes give rise to your emotional feelings. |
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| Cognitive Appraisal Theories of Emotions |
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| emphasize that your interpretations of situations give rise to your emotional feelings. |
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| says that our brains interpret specific body changes as feelings or emotions and that there is a different body pattern underlying each emotion. |
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| says that sensations or feedback from the movement of the face muscles and skin are interpreted by your brain as different emotions. |
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| asks whether we can experience an emotion immediately or whether we must think about it first. |
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| says that, in some situations, you feel an emotion before you have time to interpret or appraise the situation. |
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| Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotions |
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| says that we inherit the neural structure and physiology to express and experience emotions and that we evolved emotional patterns to adapt to our environment and solve problems important for our survival. |
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| says that performance on a task is an interaction between the level of arousal and difficulty of the task; for difficult tasks, low arousal results in better performance; for most tasks, moderate arousal helps performancel for easy tasks, high arousal may facilitate performance. |
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| says that we quickly become accustomed to receiving some good fortune; we take the good fortune for granted within a short amount of time; as a result, the initial impact of our good fortune fades. |
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| the ability to perceive and express emotion, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in oneself and others. |
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