Monday, March 3, 2014

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

* Experience of emotion is awarness of physiological
responses to emotion arousing stimuli
*sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus)
* pounding heart (arousal)
*fear (emotion)

Emotion
* We feel emotion because of biological caused by stress.
* The body changes and our mind recognizes the feeling.

Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
* Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger:
* physiological responses
* subjective experience of emotion

Schachter's Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
* To experience emotion to one must:
* be physically aroused
* cognitively label the arousal

Emotion-Lie Detectors
Polygraph
* machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies
* measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emttion
    * perspiration
    * cardiovascular
    * breathing changes
Experienced Emotion
Catharsis
* emotional release
* catharsis hypothesis
  * "releasing" aggressive enerfy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

Feel-good, Do-good Phenomenon
* people's tendency to be helpful when already in good mood.

Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
* tendency to form judgments relative to "neutral" level
  * brightness of lights
  * volume of sounds
  * level of income
* defined by our prior experienced

Relative Dprivation
* perception that one is worse of relative to those with whom one comapres oneself

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