PSYX 100s 1st Edition Lecture 23 Outline of Last Lecture No lecture Class activity Outline of Current Lecture I Cognitive Emotion II Physiological Emotion III Behavioral Emotion IV Theories of Emotion V Culture and Emotion Current Lecture I II III Cognitive Emotion a Highly subjective b Automatic evaluations immediate reactions c Measured by verbal expressions d Negative emotions are more clearly differentiated i Often focus of therapy e Positive psychology and solution focused psychology focuses on positive emotions Physiological Emotion Autonomic and Neural a Autonomic i Fight flight response system hormones ii The galvanic skin response GSR an increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity iii Polygraphs measure anxiety not lies b Neural i Seat of emotion 1 Amygdala fear limbic system ii Two pathways 1 Slow sensory input into thalamus to cortex 2 Fast sensory input into thalamus to the amygdala Behavioral Emotion These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV V a Expression of emotion through non verbal behavior b 6 fundamental emotions happiness sadness anger fear surprise disgust c Facial feedback hypothesis facial muscles send signals to the brain signals help the brain to recognize the emotions Theories of Emotion a Evolutionary theories of emotion assume emotions are innate reactions that require little cognitive interpretation i Robert Plutchik has devised a model of how primary emotions blend together to form secondary emotions b James Lange theory physiological arousal results in perception of emotion i Physiology BEFORE emotion c Cannon Bard theory thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and the autonomic nervous system i Emotional responses are not determined by physiological response and the responses are too similar to be distinguished d Schacter s two factor theory we look to external cues i Two factors 1 Autonomic arousal 2 Cognitive interpretation of that arousal ii Stimulus Autonomic arousal Appraisal Emotion 1 Feel an autonomic arousal and look around you to see why Culture and Emotion a Similarities cross cultural recognition of fundamental emotions may be biological i Cognitive appraisals and physiological reactions b Differences i Non verbal expression of emotion ii Display rules norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotion 1 Varies across cultures
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