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Emotion
physiological arousal, cognitive interpretation, subjective feelings, and behavioral expression
What Do Our Emotions Do for Us?
help us respond and to convey our
intentions
Emotion facts
natural selection not entirely programmed
Cultural Universals in Emotional Expression
sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness and surprise
Where Emotions
Come From?
brain’s emotion systems
1.–Operates at unconscious level
2. conscious processing in the cortex
James-Lange theory
Emotion-provoking stimulus produce physical response that produces emotion
Cannon-bard theory –
emotional feeling /internal physiological response occur same time
Two-factor theory of emotion –
(1)physical arousal
(2) emotion provoking stimulus
Do trained lie detectors” perform better?
no better than the untrained
Polygraph
Three
main channels of measurement:
–Blood
volume and pulse rate
–Respiration
rate and depth
–Skin
conductance
Problems with the Polygraph
not reliable!
•Rate of false positives: 18-55%
•Rate of false negatives: 11.5-23%
Author
Nayja
ID
208316
Card Set
psy Emotion 7
Description
chap 3.2
Updated
2013-03-19T20:05:53Z
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