* 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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