2. Elementary
Responses to a stimulus, include:
Physiological arousal
Expressive behaviors
Conscious experience
Mood – overall feeling one has that lasts
for an extended time frame
3. Basic
Fear, surprise, anger, disgust, happiness, sadn
ess
Basic emotions are innate (inborn) and “hard-
wired”
Complex emotions are a blend of many
aspects of emotions
Classified along two dimensions
Pleasant or unpleasant
Level of activation or arousal associated with
the emotion
4. Purpose
Can move us to act, triggering motivated
behavior
Help us to set goals, but emotional states can
also be goals in themselves.
Influences rational decision making and
purposeful behavior.
Emotional intelligence is the capacity to
understand and manage your own emotional
experiences and to
perceive, comprehend, and respond
appropriately to the emotional responses of
others.
5.
6. Theories
James-Lange Theory
Event causes physiological arousal first and
then we interpret this arousal.
Only after our interpretation of the arousal
can we experience emotion.
If the arousal is not noticed or is not given
any thought, then we will not experience
any emotion based on this event
7. Cannon-Bard Theory
We experience physiological arousal &
emotional at the same time,
But gives no attention to the role of
thoughts or outward behavior.
8. Schachter-Singer Theory
An event causes physiological arousal
first.
You must then identify a reason for this
arousal and then you are able to
experience and label the emotion.
9. Lazarus Theory
A thought must come before any
emotion or physiological arousal.
In other words, you must first think
about your situation before you can
experience an emotion.
10. Facial Feedback Theory
Emotion is the experience of changes in our
facial muscles.
In other words, when we smile, we then
experience pleasure, or happiness. When
we frown, we then experience sadness.
It is the changes in our facial muscles that
cue our brains and provide the basis of our
emotions.
Just as there are an unlimited number of
muscle configurations in our face, so to are
there a seemingly unlimited number of
emotions.
12. Sympathetic Nervous System
The part of the autonomic nervous system that
arouses the body to deal with perceived threats
Fight or flight response
Parasympathetic Nervous System
The part of the autonomic nervous system that
calms the body
Brings the body back down to a relaxed state
14. School Of Thought
Psychology has multiple perspectives
Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Social Learning
15. Psychodynamic Perspective
Focus: How behavior is affected by
unconscious drives and conflicts
Behavior is explained through
unconscious motivation and unresolved
inner conflicts from one’s childhood.
Modern version of psychoanalytic
perspective (Sigmund Freud)
16. Behavioral Perspective
Focus: How we learn through
rewards, punishments, and observation
View of behavior based on experience or
learning
17. Cognitive Perspective
Focus: On how people think and process
information
Behavior is explained by how a person
interprets the situation
How is knowledge
acquired, organized, remembered, and
used to guide behavior?
18. Social Learning Perspective
Focus: How thinking and behavior
change depending on the setting or
situation
Behavior is explained by the influence of
other people present
Cross culture also is a heavy influence