What is an emotion? - correct answer -Meaningful commonalities
-inferred complex reactions
-geared toward specific behaviors
-appraisals
-reaction to stimuli
-gives urgency to a concern, and orients to specific action
Charles Darwin - correct answer -Posited the evolutionary need for emotions:
emotions are useful and adaptive
-based on reflex-like mechanisms
-some emotional reactions are vestibular
-emotions link us to the past
What did Darwin believe about the expression of fear? - correct answer According to
Darwin, fear is expressed by way of changes in the somatic muscles, in the form of trembling due to fear
or anxiety.
William James - correct answer - Based on sensations from the muscle and internal
organs, autonomic
-James-Lange theory feeling aspect of an emotion is the perception of the body's actions
Freud - correct answer - Emotions are core of many mental illnesses and emotion in
the present
-First to connect neurosis to emotional display
-The past has great influence on present emotionality
Aristotle - correct answer offered systematic analysis of emotions, experiences
depend on our judgement