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| What are the three components of emotion? |
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| a response of thewhole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |
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| What is the James-Lange theory of emotion? |
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| the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
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| te theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simulatneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion |
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| The two- factor theory of emotion? |
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| the Schachter-singer theory that to experinece emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal |
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| How would each explain the how arousal and emotion are related? See Figure 12.1. |
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Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus)
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| What division of the nervous system is involved with arousal? |
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| the sympathetic division of our ANS (autonomic nervous system) directs your adrenal glands to release the stress hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and some other shit. |
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| What is the best level of arousal for performance? |
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| How does this change with the difficulty of the task? Figure 12.3 |
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| Performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levles for easy or welll-learned tasks. |
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| Have researchers been able to identify different physiological reactions for different emotions? |
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| Finger temperatures and hormone secretions that accompany fear and rage do sometimes differ. |
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| Activity in which brain lobe is associated with positive emotions? |
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| Explain the two track way the brain processes emotion See Figure 12.6 and 12.8 |
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| Zajonc and LeDoux have emphasized that some emotional responses are imediate, before any consciosu appraisal. Lazarus, Schacher, and singer emphasized that our appraisal and labeling of events also determinei our emotional responses. |
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| What is the polygraph? What does it measure? How is used to work to try to detect lying? |
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| a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several fo the physiological responses accompanying emoiton ( such as perspiration and cardiovascular andbreating changes) |
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| What are some of the problems with the polygraph? |
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| What is the guilty knowledge test? |
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| it assesses a suspect's physiological responses to crime-scene details known only to the police and the guilty person. |
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| What emotion do we seem to be geared to identify (p. 508)? |
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| Which gender is better at reading nonverbal cues? |
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| Which gender is more emotionally expressive? |
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| What are the six universal facial expressions? Figure 12.12 |
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| Happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, anger disgust |
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| Does the amount of emotional displays vary across cultures? |
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| Our emotional display rules - such as expressing more emotion to fellow group members than to outsiders - cross world uclutres. |
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| What is the facial feedback effect (p. 513)?. |
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| in the absence of competing emotionas, this facial feeback efect is subtle yet detectabl. Students induced to smile have felt happier and recalled happier memories than did frowners. |
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| On what two dimensions can emotions be classified? Figure 12.16 |
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| Pleasant dimensions, and arousal dimension. |
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| What part of the brain is linked to learning fear? |
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| What is the catharsis hypothesis? Is there support for the catharsis hypothesis? |
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| emotiaonl release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy ( through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |
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| What is the feel-good, do good phenomenon? |
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| people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
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| What is subjective well-being? |
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| slef-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, pjysical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life |
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| Do positive or negative events or neither seem to create long- lasting emotions? |
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| What is the adaptation level phenomenon? |
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| our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience |
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| What is relative deprivation? |
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| the perception that one is owrse off relative to those whom one compares oneself |
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| What does and does not predict happiness? Table 12.1 |
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