PSY 202 Lecture 5: Chapter 11 Emotion and Motivation
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Emotion: mental states or feelings associated with evaluation of experiences, three components: Happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, anger contempt. "pride" may also be a primary emotion. Very distinct emotions as they are all very different: facial feedback hypothesis. A unique facial expression for each primary emotion. Sensory feedback from the expression contributes to the emotional feeling. Do tests before and after describing emotions reactive time. After, identifying negative emotions, they were slower. Toxin=paralyze the frown muscles: real vs. fake emotions based on facial features. Genuine smile has a significant facial feature (cheek raiser, lip comer curler: cultures differ only in display rules, physiological differences. Cognitive theories of emotion: no discrete emotions, emotions are products of thinking, rather than the other way around. Cannon-bard theory: bodily reactions and subjective emotional experience simultaneously. Two-factor theory: arousal + appraisal subjective emotional experience. Nonverbal expression of emotion: emotional expression is largely verbal, nonverbal leakage, body language and gestures.
