Psychology Chapter 10

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Theories of Emotion

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James Lange - feel emotions after body reacts
Cannon - body generates response and emotions
Cognitive - emotions come after you interpret the situation
Ledoux - different brain systems for emotions

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Schacter Experiment

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people injected with epinephrin (people took on the emotions of the people they observed) - not ethical (didn't tell them what they were taking)

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Learned Helplessness

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condition that occurs after an animal has an aversive experience in which nothing it does can affect what happens to it, and so it simply gives up and stops trying to change the situation or to escape (shocked the dogs)

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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psychological (air, water, food) safety (shelter) social (belongingness) self-esteem (how you feel about yourself) self-actualization ("fullest potential")

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Incentive

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stimuli or events that draw us to achieve a particular goal in anticipation of a reward

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Instinct

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tendency to produce organized and unaltered responses

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Positive/Negative Reinforcement

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Positive - reinforce with a positive action (congratulating)
Negative - reinforce with a negative action (yelling)

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Drive

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internal imbalance that pushes us to reach a goal to reduce the imbalance

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Emotion

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positive or negative response to an object or event

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Arousal

Back 10

perform best with an immediate level of arousal

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Homeostasis

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Equilibrium in the body (balance)

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Amygdala

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located in the brain (signals the brain with fear)

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Frontal Lobe

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deals with our emotions (optimistic people have more frontal lobe activity)

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Happy People

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use more frontal lobe (better off)

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Deprived/Non-deprived Reward

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deprived - occurs when you have filled a biological need
non-deprived - reward that occurs when you haven't actually required the rewarding stimulus or activity

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Hypothalamus

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triggers the part of the brain that makes neurotransmitters, dopamine, and adrenaline

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Polygraph

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lie detector (some people can lie really well and can control their blood pressure with deep diaphragm breaths)

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Six Basic Emotions

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happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust

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Misattribution of Arousal

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Don't interpret it (leads to other emotions)

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Hunger

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Can be an emotion and a feeling (you can feel hungry and it can affect your mood)

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What does body language tell us about ourselves?

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you can tell what people are feeling

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Display Rule

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indicates when you are to display a certain emotion (church)

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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perform best when under an immediate level of arousal

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Arousal Theory

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people don't like stimuli that are too boring or cause too much arousal

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Obesity

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overweight

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Fat Genes

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when children have obese parents there is more of a chance they will be obese as well

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Implicit/Explicit Motives

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Implicit Motive - do it internally
Explicit Motive - do it for recognition, reward, satisfaction

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Metabolism

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the sum of the chemical events in each of your cells, events that convert food molecules to the energy needed for the cells to function (your life is sustained)

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Set Point

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settle at a weight that is easiest to maintain