PSY-2012 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Ekman, Social Emotions, Operant Conditioning
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Define and be able to differentiate emotion, mood, and affect: emotion- conscious evaluative reaction to some event or experience, mood- feeling state, not clearly linked to some event, affect- automatic response; good-bad dimension. List the six universal emotions: happiness, disgust, sadness, fear, surprise and anger. Define display rules and describe some of the factors that affect how we display emotions: display rules- cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions; cultural differences, gender differences. Arousal refers to the general physiological response to an emotion; can be high (fear, nervousness, sexual arousal, excitement or anger) or low (calmness and sadness) Disgust and sadness are both negative emotions and low arousal but they elicit different responses; disgust- avoid disease or sadness- seek social support. Describe three major theories of emotion including the james-lange theory, cannon-bard theory, and the schacter-singer theory: james-lange theory- theory proposing that emotions result from our interpretations of our bodily reactions or physiological changes to stimuli.
