Traditional View
What is the overall summary of the traditional view?
If there's any biological result, it's caused by psychology
What is the overall view of the James-Lange theory?
Biological results come before the psychological results; biology drives psychology
What is botox?
Neural toxin; temporary numbing agent
What is the added step in this theory?
Cognitive (between biology and psychology); assessment of situation
What is the psychological portion of this view?
Feeling of an emotion
people with botox had lowered emotional responses; they are unable to express emotions. They had lowered ability to recognize emotional expressions in others
What is pure autonomic failure? What were the results?
No response to stress; lowered emotional response, lowered ability to recognize emotional expressions in others.
How was the study conducted?
They injected participants with epinephrine to induce a fight or flight response.
What is the biological portion of the view?
Physiology and other physical behaviors
What happened in the "smiling" condition of the pencil studies?
Participants rated all stimuli more positively
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
Facial expressions can influence psychological emotions
What happened in the informed group with the confederate?
There was no emotion shown by the participants
What begins the process?
Trigger or stimulus
What is cerebral palsy? What were the results?
Lost muscle tone in 1 side of the face. Lowered emotional responses, lowered ability to recognize emotional expressions in others.
What happened in the "frowning" condition in the pencil studies?
Participants rated all stimuli more negatively
what happened in the uninformed group with the confederate?
They matched the emotion of the confederate about the injection
What are the 4 overall steps?
1.) Trigger or stimulus 2.) Perception or awareness 3.) The feeling of an emotion 4.) Physiology or other physical behaviors
How does panic disorder prove the JLT theory?
Involves a deep sense of fear (psychology) coupled with a spike in the sympathetic nervous system (biology). The spike in the sympathetic nervous system always occurred first
Why does botox and palsy have a strong influence on emotions?
The confederate in the informed group had no affect on the participants; they knew what they were feeling from the shot. In the uninformed group, the participants matched whatever emotion the confederate was showing (happy or angry).