February 6
EQ- How do we experience emotion?
Agenda:
1.Daily Sheet
2.Review
Motivation Quiz
3.Emotions
Introduction
4.Basketball
game?
Table of Contents:
110. February 6
111. Emotions
Homework: Apply the five
theories of emotion to the
scenario on your notes
page.
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Vocabulary
• Emotion- A response involving physiological
arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious
experience.
Do NowWorking alone or with a partner,
list as many emotions as you can
think of!!
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We Are Emotional Creatures:
• Three words – Bridge to
Terabithia
• Joy – weddings
• Grief – funerals
• Jealousy – exboyfriend/girlfriend
• Rage – driving
• Happiness – passing a
big test
Inside Out
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What IS Emotion?
• Emotion involves:
• 1. A subjective conscious
experience (cognitive)
• Accompanied by…
• 2. Bodily arousal
(physiological)
• and
• 3. A characteristic overt
expression (behavioral)
Think he brushes his teeth?
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How do you feel when…?
• You’re incredibly MAD: • You’re incredibly HAPPY:
– Internal Body
Response?
– External
Expressions/Actions
– Internal Body Response?
– External
Expressions/Actions?
What about:
SCARED?
NERVOUS?
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What Causes Emotion(s)?
• Neurotransmitters – Endorphins,
serotonin
• Autonomic Nervous System –
Fight or flight
• Endocrine system – Hormones
• Amygdala – fear and anxiety
• Frontal lobes – control
interpretation of emotions
• Right hemisphere – handles
positive emotions
• Left hemisphere – handles
negative emotions
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The Research:
• Paul Ekman – found at least six
basic facial expressions that are
universally recognized by people all
over the world
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Happiness
Sadness
Surprise
Fear
Disgust
Anger
• Each of these causes a distinct
physiological, behavioral, and
cognitive response
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You’re alone… walking down a
dark alley…. You hear footsteps
behind you…
What comes first?
• The emotion of fear
• Your body’s physical
reaction of fear
• You thoughts that
this is dangerous
and should be
feared?
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James-Lange Theory
• event causes physiological arousal first
• 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.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You hear
footsteps behind you and you begin to tremble, your heart beats
faster, and your breathing deepens. You notice these physiological
changes and interpret them as your body’s preparation for a fearful
situation. You then experience fear.
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Cannon-Bard Theory
• we experience physiological arousal and emotional at the
same time,
• no attention to the role of thoughts or outward behavior.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at
night. You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to
tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing
deepens. At the same time as these physiological changes
occur you also experience the emotion of fear.
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Schachter-Singer Theory
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Aka Two-Factor Theory
an event causes physiological arousal first.
then identify a reason for this arousal
then you are able to experience and label the emotion.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at
night. You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to
tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing
deepens. Upon noticing this arousal you realize that is
comes from the fact that you are walking down a dark
alley by yourself. This behavior is dangerous and therefore
you feel the emotion of fear.
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Lazarus Theory
• thought must come before any emotion or physiological
arousal.
• you must first think about your situation before you can
experience an emotion.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at
night. You hear footsteps behind you and you think it may
be a mugger so you begin to tremble, your heart beats
faster, and your breathing deepens and at the same time
experience fear.
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Facial Feedback Theory
• emotion is the experience of changes in our facial
muscles.
• (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.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at
night. You hear footsteps behind you and your eyes widen,
your teeth clench and your brain interprets these facial
changes as the expression of fear. Therefore you experience
the emotion of fear.
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