Psychology 1000 Chapter : Emotion.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Triggering the ras: collateral sensory information, non-specific, cortical feedback. Ras vs. sns: diffuse activation systems, adrenergic (ne, antagonists. Supporting darwin: facial feedback hypothesis, e. g. , izard, 1977. Emotion-providing events perception (danger) perception of emotion (fear) bodily arousal. Emotion-providing events perception (danger) bodily arousal . Changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion. Number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion. Subjects asked to tense and relax muscles. Self-reported happiness is higher in smile group. Stimuli seen as funnier for smile group etc Patient (f. p. ) could not display emotions, but did report feeling emotional. Emotion-providing events appraisal emotion bodily arousal. Emotion-providing events perception (appraisal) perception of emotion (fear) bodily arousal. Subjects injected with either epinephrine or placebo. Exposed to: frightening film, comedy, insulted, control. Subjects reported more anger, fear, and happiness in appropriate groups. But no emotion at all if subjects had been informed about the effects of. In control group, epinephrine alone did not product emotion epinephrine.