1. Emotions
Nikhita Iyer

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.

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.

11. Nervous System

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

13. Autonomic Nervous System

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

19. Applications
 Liedetectors
 Brain fingerprinting