PSYC 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Birth Weight, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Mental Model
28 Feb 2018
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What are emotions: positive or negative experiences that are associated with physiological changes that influence thought or behavior. Dimensions: high arousal, low arousal, positive, negative. James-lange theory: first arousal, and then emotion: cannon-bard theory: arousal and emotions at the same time. Schachther and singer (1962: two-factor theory: emotions are based on influences about the causes of general physiological arousal, experience physiological arousal-> try to explain why: look at own behavior and at environment-> label and experience emotion accordingly. Theories of emotion-the evidence: research support for the claim that general arousal is interpreted along with environmental cues to form emotional experience, have people exercise to arouse them. This arousal will affect how they interpret what is in their environment. Communicating emotions: use metaphors to describe our emotions, anger: seeing red , come up with a few metaphors used to describe the following emotions, fear: scared stiff , sadness: feeling blue , happiness: cloud nine , surprise: deer in headlights .
