Psychology Emotion Ch. 9

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Emotion

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A positive or negative eperience that s associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity

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Valence

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How positve or negative an experience is (1 of 2 dimensions of emotion)

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Arousal

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How active or pasive the experience is (1 of 2 dimensions of emotion)

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James-Lange theory

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A theory about the relationship between emotional experience and physiological activity suggesting that stimuli trigger activityin the autonomic nervous system, which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain

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Cannon - Bard theory

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A theory about the relationship between emotional experience and physiological activity suggesting that a stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain

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Two-factor theory

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A theory about the relationship between emotional experience and physiological acitvity suggesting that emotions are inferences about the causes of undifferentiated physiological arousal

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Appraisal

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An evaluation of the emotion relevant aspects of a stimulus that is performed by the amygdala

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Heinrich Kluver and Paul Bucy

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Studied the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and discovered when surgically removing a particular monkeys temporal lobe, the monkey would eat anything and fuck anything and had no fear...temporal lobe syndrome or Kluver-Bucy sundrome...this came from damaging regions that included the Amygdala

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Emotional regulation

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The use of cognitive and behavioral strategies to influence onces emotional experience

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Reappraisal

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A cognitive strategy that involves changing ones emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion eliciting stimulus

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Amygdala

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A structure involved in the rapid appraisal of emotional relevance of stimuli

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Emotional expression

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Any observable sign of an emotional state

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Universality hypothesis

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The hypothesis that emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone

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Words are _____ and facial expressions are ______

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Symbols and signs

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6 universal emotions of a face

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Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise

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Facial feedback hypothesis

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The hypothesis that emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify

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Display rules

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Norms for the control of emotional expression

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Intensification

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Deceiving emotion: Involves exagerrating the expression of ones emotion..(pretending they are more surprised than they actually are)

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Deintesification

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Deceiving emotion: Muting the expression of ones emotion...(when a loser tries to look less pissed off)

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Masking

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Deceiving emotion: Expressing one emotion while feeling another...(when a poker has a full house but acts like he doesn't have shit)

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Neutralizing

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Deceiving emotion: Feeling an emotion but displaying no emotion...(judges dont show emotion during a trial)

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Different ways to detect if someone isn't being sincere

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Morphology: Certain facial muscles resist conscious control
Symmetry: Sincere expressions are more symmetrical than insincere ones
Duration: Shorter expressions are more insincere
Temporal patterning: Sincere expressions appear and disappear smoothly...insincere..not so much

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Motivation

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The purpose for or cause of an action

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Hedonic principle

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The notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

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Drive

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An internal state generated by departures from physiological optimality

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Lateral hypothalamus

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Receives hunger signals

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Ventromedial hypothalamus

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Receives satiety signals

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Ghrelin

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Chemical that is produced in the stomack and signals the brain to switch hunger on

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Leptin

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Chemical secreted by fat cells, and appears to signal the brain to turn hunger off

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Bulimia nervosa

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An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging

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Anorexia nervosa

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Eating disorder that is an intense fear of being fat and severe restriction of food intake

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Metabolism

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The rate at which energy is used by the body

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Dihydroepiandosterone

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A hormone that is identified to be the initial onset of sexual desire

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Human sexual response cycle

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The stages of physiological arousal during sexual activity
Excitement phase
Plateau phase
Orgasm
Resolution phase

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Refractory period

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After the orgasm, where it could take minutes to days for the excitement from the stimulus to return

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Intrinsic motivation

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A motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding

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Extrinsic motivation

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A motivation to take actions that are not themselves rewarding but lead to a reward

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Conscious motivation

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A motivation of which one is aware

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Unconscious motivation

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A motivation of which one is not aware

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Approach motivation

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A motivation to experience positive outcomes

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Avoidance motivation

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A motivation not to experiecne a negative outcome

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According to Maslow, the weakest and most defferable need is _____

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Need for self actualization

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The ____, _____ and _____ all comunicate info about a persons emotional state

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Voice, body and face.