Cognition & Emotion
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- What is emotion? (1) Emotions as physiological reactions & feedback from peripheral nervous system (2) Emotions as facial expressions & it's feedback (3) Emotions as a collection of cognitive evaluation & labellng processes
- Cognition & Emotion
- Component Process Appraoch - Scherer (2000)
- •Subjective feelings •Cognitive appraisals & styles •Expressive motor behavior •Physiological arousal •The readiness to take a particular action
- Evaluation: (+)Provides a tool to characterise the richness of subjective & behavioral aspects of emotion (-)Not clear whether the components act as a concerted whole (-)Social norms or ‘display rules’ can decouple components (-)Expressive face or the sense of a stronger feeling of an emotion does not necessarily lead to stronger physiological reaction
- Zajonc & Lazarus debate: (1) Are there independent systems for cognition & emotion? (2) Can emotion be activated without prior activation of cognitive processes?
- Zajonc's arguements: •We make affective judgements about people & objects before knowing precisely what it is •Emotion info processing is functionally & neuroanatomically independent of conscious processing
- Evaluation: (+) Emotion can occur independent of conscious cognitive processes (-)Zajonc confused conscious processing with cognitive processing (-)Assumes any automatic processes were effective processes (-)Can not separate cognition & emotion
- Lazarus arguements: •Cognitive appraisal a key component for emotional experience
- Appraisal Theory (1982) (1)Primary appraisal (assessed situational environment, +/-) (2) Secondary appraisal (the response the individual has to cope with the situation) (3) Re appraisal (both stimulus situation & coping strategies are monitored) *Can be automatic or conscious & deliberate*
- Zajonc's arguements: •We make affective judgements about people & objects before knowing precisely what it is •Emotion info processing is functionally & neuroanatomically independent of conscious processing
- Smith & Lazarus arguements (1993)
- (1) Each emotion elicited by a specific & district pattern of appraisal: (1) motivational relevance (2) motivational congruence (3) Accountability (4) Problem focused coping potential (5) Emotion focused coping potential (6) Future expectancy 1-2 primary, 4-5 secondary
- Evaluation of Appraisal Theory: Do appraisals always determine emotional experience? (-)Difficult to study rapid & automatic associative processing involved in appraisal
- (2) Focus on STRUCTURE of appraisal rather than PROCESS
- (1) Each emotion elicited by a specific & district pattern of appraisal: (1) motivational relevance (2) motivational congruence (3) Accountability (4) Problem focused coping potential (5) Emotion focused coping potential (6) Future expectancy 1-2 primary, 4-5 secondary
- Emotions in laboratory:: •Induced emotions should be those occuring in everyday life •Should not surpass that typically experienced in daily life •Must be extinguishable •Can be diffucult to provke some emotions experimentally
- Recalling emotional experiences - Bowers (1981) Associative Network Model: •Specific emotions are represented in memory as central units of into that are linked to other units which represent other idea that associated with emotion
- Component Process Appraoch - Scherer (2000)
- Cognition & Emotion
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