Emotion

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What are emotions?
Complex psychological states
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What do emotions not involve?
Objective experience
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Emotions are...
Intense but short lived
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What is not true about emotions?
They are typically not due to specific causation
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What behaviours does Darwin (1872) suggest that expressions of emotion evolve from?
Behaviours that indicate what an animal is likely to do next
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What is the principle of antithesis (Darwin, 1872)?
Opposite messages are signalled by opposite movements
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What does James-Lange's peripheral feedback theory suggest about emotions?
Stimulus, perception, bodily arousal, emotion
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What does Cannon-Bard's theory suggest about emotions?
Stimulus, perception, emotion, bodily arousal
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Skin conductance response _________ with ________ arousal
Increased, enhanced
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What do Schachter and Singer suggest about arousal and emotion?
Degree of bodily arousal affects the intensity of the emotion
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What is sham rage?
Aggression to the slightest thing but not specific
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What part of the brain was critical for the expression of aggression responses (Bard, 1929)?
Hypothalamus
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Which brain area is not involved in aggression?
Prefrontal cortex
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What emotion could S.P. not perceive?
Fear
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What is the low level subcortical pathway between?
Thalamus to amygdala
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