PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blood Pressure, Polygraph, Multiple Choice
23 Oct 2016
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Short-lived mental states associated with our evaluation of our experiences. Relatively brief patterns of responses involving: behavioral displays, physiological response, subjective feelings and thoughts. What emotions are not: moods: longer-lived, weaker than emotions, temperament or personality, chronic general disposition, behavioral display: University of facial expressions: paul ekman. 7 primary emotions: anger, happy, surprised, sad, fear, Can you beat a polygraph: be a sociopath, have a brain injury, induce a high level of arousal as a baseline. How to ensure people aren"t beating a polygraph: guilty knowledge test (david lykken) Multiple choice questions read to test that knowledge. Should polygraphs be used in trials as evidence: subjective feelings: Where do emotions come from: theories of emotion. In teeth = close to a smile, hold w/ lips = close to a frown. James- lange: emotion is the result of awareness of physiological responses to environmental stimuli, e. g. smiling makes you happy. Rope bridge study: dutton & aron (1974, two conditions:
