evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion
Evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion
The definition of emotion is simply a cognitive, physical, or behavioral state. The behavioral response humans have are things like crying or taking an action upon some situation e.g. humans would run if they saw an explosion. The physiological state can be for example arousal of the nervous system and endocrine system in our bodies, which would lead to the production of many hormones. And finally the cognitive explanation for our emotions is how we understand the way we feel. The doubt is which one comes first when experiencing emotions, cognitive factors or biological factors?
Ekmannn’s study suggests that cognitive factors affect our emotions after the biological factors do. The study’s aim was to find a relationship between the physical state and emotions. The participants were given different emotions, which they had to represent with their facial expressions and hold them for about 10 seconds. The participants physiological systems were measured after that and the results were that participants that picked different emotions had different responses in their physiological system. The participants that picked emotions such as anger had for example a higher increase of temperature in their bodies than the participants that did not have anger and picked an emotion such as sadness. Therefore what was found from this experiment was that emotions can be measured by the changes in their physiological system.
Studying the human behavior is often done by researchers taking a etic approach, as there are emotions are that universal; such as: happy, sad, fear and surprise. This suggests that since our biological systems are the same across different cultures, we are made to believe that we can easily understand other culture’s emotions too based on their physiology. Ekman’s study has been repeat on a western Sumatra tribe, and received the same results. This further emphasizes how
The definition of emotion is simply a cognitive, physical, or behavioral state. The behavioral response humans have are things like crying or taking an action upon some situation e.g. humans would run if they saw an explosion. The physiological state can be for example arousal of the nervous system and endocrine system in our bodies, which would lead to the production of many hormones. And finally the cognitive explanation for our emotions is how we understand the way we feel. The doubt is which one comes first when experiencing emotions, cognitive factors or biological factors?
Ekmannn’s study suggests that cognitive factors affect our emotions after the biological factors do. The study’s aim was to find a relationship between the physical state and emotions. The participants were given different emotions, which they had to represent with their facial expressions and hold them for about 10 seconds. The participants physiological systems were measured after that and the results were that participants that picked different emotions had different responses in their physiological system. The participants that picked emotions such as anger had for example a higher increase of temperature in their bodies than the participants that did not have anger and picked an emotion such as sadness. Therefore what was found from this experiment was that emotions can be measured by the changes in their physiological system.
Studying the human behavior is often done by researchers taking a etic approach, as there are emotions are that universal; such as: happy, sad, fear and surprise. This suggests that since our biological systems are the same across different cultures, we are made to believe that we can easily understand other culture’s emotions too based on their physiology. Ekman’s study has been repeat on a western Sumatra tribe, and received the same results. This further emphasizes how