10.1 The Experience of Emotion

Question 1

affect

Answer 1

• the experience of feeling or emotion

Question 2

arousal

Answer 2

• our experiences of the bodily responses created by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)

Question 3

emotion

Answer 3

• a mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behavior

Question 4

motivation

Answer 4

• a driving force that initiates and directs behavior

Question 5

basic emotions

Answer 5

• anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise

Question 6

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 6

• the experience of an emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal

Question 7

James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 7

• our experience of an emotion is the result of the arousal that we experience

Question 8

two-factor theory of emotion

Answer 8

• the experience of emotion is determined by the intensity of the arousal we are experiencing, but that the cognitive appraisal of the situation determines what the emotion will be

Question 9

misattribution of arousal

Answer 9

• tendency for people to incorrectly label the source of the arousal that they are experiencing

Question 10

excitation transfer

Answer 10

• the phenomenon that occurs when people who are already experiencing arousal from one event tend to also experience unrelated emotions more strongly

Question 11

nonverbal communication

Answer 11

• communication that does not involve words

Question 12

facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 12

• the movement of our facial muscles can trigger corresponding emotions