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Emotional Experience - Coggle Diagram
Emotional Experience
Behavioral Component
reveal emotions
characteristic overt expressions
eg. smile / frown
body language
facial expression
reveal basic emotions
muscular feedback from facial expressions
contributes conscious experience of emotions
facial-feedback hypothesis
facial muscles send signals to brain
help brain recognize emotion one is experiencing
instructed to contract facial muscles
mimic facial expressions associated with certain emotions
actually experience these emotions
novel treatment for depression
injection of Botox
forehead
paralyze facial muscles
responsible for frowning
facial expressions
sighted & blind athletes
indistinguishable
facial expressions that go with emotions
wired into human brain
Physiological Component
Autonomic Arousal
associated with emotion
through actions of autonomic nervous system
regulated activity of glands, smooth muscles & blood vessels
responsible
highly emotional fight-or-flight response
largely controlled
release of adrenal hormones
hormonal changes
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connection
polygraph / lie detector
device that records autonomic fluctuations while subject is questioned
emotion detector
monitors key indicators of autonomic arousal
eg. heart rate
galvanic skin response
increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity
people lie
experience emotion
produce noticeable changes
physiological indicators
Neural Circuits
autonomic responses accompany emotions
controlled in the brain
hypothalamus, amygdala & adjacent structure in limbic system
seat of emotions
amygdala
central role
acquisition of conditioned fears
sensory inputs
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nearby amygdala
process information quickly
detects threat
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process information independent of cognitive awareness
brain's fear center
highly anxious children
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Culture
Similarities
considerable cross-cultural agreement
identification of happiness etc.
based on facial expression
facial expressions associated with basic emotions
universally recognized
little cultural variance
physiological arousal
accompanies emotional experience
Differences
some culture
no words corresponds to sadness
display rules
norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions
norms vary from one culture to another
emotions
involve subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal & characteristic overt expression
Cognitive Component
emotions → potentially intense internal feelings
evaluative aspect
characterize as pleasant / unpleasant
automatic & subconscious
affective forecasting
efforts to predict one's emotional rxns to future events
people reliably mispredict
future feelings
do not fully appreciate
effective people tend to be in rationalizing
based on memories of past
recollections
distorted & inaccurate
reasonably accurate
anticipating whether events will generate +ve / -ve emotions
way off in predicting intensity & duration of emotional rxns