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The mind and body's integrated response to stimulus of some kind.
What is emotion?
To experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label that arousal.
What is the Two - Factor/Schachter - Singer Theory?
All emotions are a result of putting names to arousal and suggests that many emotional reactions occur separately, even before cognition kicks in.
What is Polish - born American psychologist Robert Zajonc's theory?
These feelings tend to show more activity in the right frontal lobe.
What are negative feelings?
Fill in the blanks: ___, ___, and ___ often deliver some of the ___.
Fear, anger, sexual arousal, same biological signals
Pounding heart, need to urinate, sweaty palms (examples of physiological arousal or conscious experience)
What are examples of physiological arousal?
Activation, stress, or energy; and increase in reactivity or wakefulness that primes us for some kind of action.
What is arousal?
The central brain region that drives emotion and motivation.
What is the limbic system?
These feelings tend to show more activity in the amygdala.
What are feelings of fear?
Fill in the blanks: Emotions provide us with ___ and motivation that lets us meet our goals and ___, often improving our performance in any given ___.
energy, needs, situation
Fear and panic (examples of physiological arousal or conscious experience)
What are examples of conscious experience?
A hormone that induces the level of physiological activation that can go numerous ways emotionally.
What arouses you in a crisis, making you hyper aware, increasing your heart and breathing rate, and even spiking your blood sugar for extra energy.
What is sympathetic divison?
The more primal emotional center in the brain.
What is the amygdala?
Fill in the blanks: Emotions play and important role in how we ___ and ___.
think, behave
The experience of emotion is the awareness of physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli.
What is the James - Lange Theory?
In Schachter - Singer's college men + drugs experiment, they reported very little emotion and blamed their racing heart and flushed face on the drug, not their particular state of mind.
Who are the "Revved Up" subjects?
What slows down heart and breathing rates while shutting off stress hormones.
Fill in the blanks: Emotions involve ___, ___, and conscious experience.
physiological arousal, expressive behavior
Fill in the blanks: In the example of hearing footsteps behind you while walking at night, ___ behaviors could include quickenining your pace or moving toward a ___.
expressive, streetlight
Emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experiences of emotion.
What is the Cannon - Bard Theory?
In Schachter - Singer's college men + drugs experiment, they adopted the emotion of the actor in the room.
Who are the "No Effect" subjects?
These feelings tend to show more activity in the left frontal lobe.
What are positive feelings?
Fill in the blanks: The slower high - road cortex route allows for ___, but the low - road shortcut allows for ___.
thinking about feeling, instant emotional reaction
Fill in the blanks: Emotions ___ and construct a ___ part of who we are.
represent, big