PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Lie Detection, Emotional Expression
17 Feb 2016
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Emotion: subjective, a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity. Emotions can be compared using multidimensional scaling: technique used by psychologists create a map of experiences, people rated the similarity of dozens of emotional experiences. 2 things multidimensional scaling revealed about emotion: 1) closeness (between emotions, 2) dimension (on which those things vary) 2 dimensions that emotions differ on: 1) valence, 2) arousal. 2) arousal: how positive or negative the experience is, how active or passive the experience is. Two-factor theory: the theory that emotions are based on inferences about the, stimuli trigger general physiological arousal whose cause the causes of physiological arousal brain interprets, and this interpretation leads to emotional experience. But instead of causing both reaction and emotion (different experiences of different patters of bodily activity) suggested by cannon-barge. Different interpretations of a single patter of a single pattern of bodily activity. Special role in emotion such as ear with fear.
