Gillette Psych 12 – Motivation & Emotion

Emotions – Theory and Practice

Motivation = _________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

The way we feel plays a key role in the motivation and other areas of cognition.

________________ _________________ = in terms of how we express emotions facially.

_________ is identifiable in faces regardless of culture

What we do not know – how are emotions generalized?

THEORIES OF EMOTION

James-Lange Theory: We have a psychological response and we __________ it as an emotion:

“____________________________________________”

Gillette Psych 12 – Motivation & Emotion

Cannon-Bard Theory: We have an emotional response and we _______ the physiological response:

“______________________________”

Schacter-Singer Theory: We ________________ feelings and then ________ them.

“__________________________________________________”

Cognitive Appraisal: When there is ________________________________________.

“_________________________________________________________________________”

Gender & Emotion

Gillette Psych 12 – Motivation & Emotion

_________________ are much better at understanding nonverbal emotions than men.

Detecting Emotion

Even trained professionals like police officers and polygraphists detect deceiving emotions only ____% of the time.

When ______________diverse people were shown basic facial expressions – they did well at recognizing them (Ekman & Matsumoto, 1989)

Emotional processes are tied to physiological processes.

__________________________________ (GSR): Increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity. The GSR is a convenient & sensitive index of autonomic arousal that has been used as a measure of emotion in many lab studies.

Emotions are difficult to understand. Emotions are also not directly under our control.

___________________ is a great example!