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Elements of Emotion
Elements of Emotion
1. Cognitive appraisalpersons
assessment of personal meaning
of his or her current circumstances
2. Subjective experienceawareness of
feeling tone it brings
3. Thought and action tendencies urges to
think and act in certain
ways
Example:
emotion
anger
fear
disgust
guilt
shame
happiness
thought-action
tendencies
attack
escape
expel
make amends
withdraw
laugh
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4. Internal bodily changes
visceral responses accompanying
the experience of emotion. Triggered
by the activation of sympathetic
division of autonomic nervous system
-Sympathetic nervous system
prepared the body for emergency
action and is responsible for the
bodily changes
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5. Facial expression
6. Responses to emotion how
people cope with or react to their
own emotion or the situation that
elicited it
Theories of Emotion
Theories of Emotion
1. James Lange Theory
proponents William James & Carl
Lange. According to them, emotional
situations are accompanied by certain
characteristic bodily changes which
are both internal and external. These
bodily reactions, as they claimed are our
emotions
Theories of Emotion
1. James Lange Theory
proponents William James & Carl
Lange. According to them, emotional
situations are accompanied by certain
characteristic bodily changes which
are both internal and external
Activation of
visceral and
skeletal
responses
Perception of
emotionproducing
stimulus
Processing of stimulus by
thalamus which
simultaneously sends
messages to the cortex and
other parts of the body
Messages to
cortex produce
experience of
emotion
Messages from
thalamus activate
visceral and skeletal
response
Facial
Expression
Subjective
experience of
the emotion
1. Love
Wrightsman says that love starts in infancy.
The infant derives satisfaction from its being
fondled and fed by its mother which is
accompanied by physiological processes of
a pleasant nature
Fear
- Fear is an unlearned response that is
aroused in threatening situations. It is a
fixed combination of physiological and
behavioral responses to certain stimuli
Fear
- In reality, what we learn are new things to
fear and new ways to behave when afraid
Anger
- Marx and Wrightsman describe the
fundamental stimulus-situation eliciting
anger as some kind of frustration
3. Anger
-Under normal conditions, anger tends to rise and fall
rapidly. It dissipates faster than other emotions
-Anger has adaptive functions. It produces the feeling
of aggression we need when we have to fight since
aggression releases tension, the cathartic effect thus
Produced serves adaptive function of anger
Anger
- Marx and Wrightsman describe the
fundamental stimulus-situation eliciting
anger as some kind of frustration