PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Qualia, Ternary Relation
26 Jun 2017
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A physiological construct that is represented by several different channels. Emotion channels: affect, private subjective experience, happy, sad, fear, anger are descriptors of different affective states facial expressions, physiological arousal, action readiness, behavior. Response coherence postulate: the channels that underlie emotions are associated together; they do not act independently. Emotions that are qualitatively similar are grouped into one of 6-8 different categories. The label of each category represents an emotion prototype which reflects the most representative emotion of the category: most emotion prototypes have a specific facial expression associated with it. One way of analyzing emotions is to study the meaning of emotions words. 5 basic emotion categories: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust. Each label represents an emotion prototype: the average or typical meaning that all words in the emotion category have in common. Emotions are assumed to promote the survivial of individuals and their offspring.
