PSYC234 Study Guide - Final Guide: Frontal Lobe, Zygomaticus Major Muscle, Amygdala
Emotions
-Emotions relate to feelings and behaviours in both positive and negative ways —>
researchers tend to focus on negative but lately it was been both!
-Darwin (1872) and emotion!
•Human expression of emotion evolved form other species to communicate behaviour
intentions!
•Successful communicators more likely to survive and reproduce thus emotion
expression is adaptive!
•To be effective emotional signals must be distinguishable so evolved in opposite
directions (antithesis) —> an example is aggressive vs submissive behaviour in dogs
or a happy face vs a sad face!
•Personal experience —> personal expression —> observer interpretation!
-Emotion has 3 components but there are two views —> the James-Lange theory and
the common sense theory!
-Common sense view of components of emotion!
•1. Appraisal!
•2. Emotion!
•3. Action/behaviour!
•Example is experiencing something scary, developing a fear and then reacting to it!
-James-Lange theory of components of emotion!
•1. Cognition!
•2. Action!
•3. Feeling!
•Example is experiencing a scary event, reacting to it and then developing a fear!
•Conscious experience of emotions results from perceptions of autonomic arousal —>
this claims that someone with a broken neck would lack emotional experience but we
know this is incorrect as people with spinal injuries still have full emotional —> due to
this the sequencing of his theory is not entirely correct!
-Modern view of the 3 components (more parallel approach) —> appraisal (cognition),
emotion (feeling) and action/behaviour are all effected by each other!
-Facial expressions of emotion!
•Ekman states that there are 6 primary facial expressions of emotion which are similar
across most cultures (universal)!
Document Summary
Emotions relate to feelings and behaviours in both positive and negative ways > researchers tend to focus on negative but lately it was been both. Emotion has 3 components but there are two views > the james-lange theory and the common sense theory. Common sense view of components of emotion: 1. Action/behaviour: example is experiencing something scary, developing a fear and then reacting to it. James-lange theory of components of emotion: 1. Modern view of the 3 components (more parallel approach) > appraisal (cognition), emotion (feeling) and action/behaviour are all e ected by each other. Facial expressions of emotion: ekman states that there are 6 primary facial expressions of emotion which are similar across most cultures (universal, these facial expressions are anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise and disgust. Cortical mechanisms of emotion: right hemisphere dominant for prosody and perception of facial expression, frontal lobe lesions to reduced number of facial expressions (not experiences)
