Unit+8B+Emotion


 * Name: **__Veronica Andrade __** Period: **__ 2 __** Date: **__ February 10, 2012 __

**PsychSim 5: EXPRESSING EMOTION ** In this activity you will learn about the role of facial expressions in the nonverbal communication of emotion.


 * Primary Affects **
 *  What emotions are generally considered primary affects? How do they relate to facial expressions?


 * The Facial Code **
 * Using the table below, describe the characteristic positions of the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth for each of the six primary affects.
 * || **EYEBROWS ** || **EYES ** || **MOUTH ** ||
 * **1 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Raised and curved || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Opened wide || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jaw dropped but lips are relaxed ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Raised with inner corners drawn together || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Opened wide with lower eyelid tensed and raised || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Open but tense with back corners of lips drawn back slightly. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lowered forcing the upper eye lid to lower as well || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lower eyelid is raised slightly || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Upper and lower lip raised where the lower lip meets the upper ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Brows are lowered and drawn together || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Both eyelids are tense causing a hard stare || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lips pressed firmly together ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Brows are relaxed || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cheeks are raised causing wrinkles under eyelids || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Corners are drawn back and raised and a wrinkle run from nose to corners of lips ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inner corners are raised and drawn together || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inner corners of upper eyelids are raised making an inverted “V” in the upper eyelid || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Corner of lips are turned down and lips may be trembling ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does the expression of disgust differ from the other primary affects? __Disgust is different because of how it’s formed.__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Emotional Blends **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">What are emotional blends? How do people generally express them? __Emotional blends are when you express 2 expressions at the same time. You express them by doing half of one expression and half of another.__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Masking Emotion **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">How are people able to mask emotions? __They fake an emotion.__

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**<span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Name: __Veronica Andrade__ Period: __2__ Date:__February 10, 2012__ ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">PsychSim 5: ALL STRESSED OUT **

<span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">This activity examines the way that psychologists conceptualize stress, emphasizing that stress is a biopsycho-social process. You will explore the sources of stress in your own life, review your body’s response to stress, and then learn how cognitive appraisal dramatically affects how much stress you actually experience.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Checking the Level of Stress in Your Life **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">What was your “Stress Test” score? __28/45__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Do you think that such a test accurately captures your experience? What other stressors should be included? __No, I’m not a college student and there are more daily stressors than those listed.__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Stress, Stressors, and Coping **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Psychologists differentiate stressors, strain, and stress. What does each of these terms mean?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Stressors – Things that cause stress
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Strain – A constant stressor
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Stress –


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">The General Adaptation Syndrome **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Describe Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">When you’re met with a stressor and your body goes into shock, then it mobilizes you to stay in homeostasis.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">The Biology of Stress **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Although both men and women experience the fight-or-flight syndrome, some scientists argue that women also can experience stress differently (tend-and-befriend). Briefly explain this hypothesis.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Can you think of why this alleged gender difference in fight-or-flight and tend-and-befriend may “make sense” from an evolutionary perspective?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">Outline the body’s two-part endocrine response to stress.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Stress Harms Your Body’s Organ Systems **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">List the effects of stress on:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">the heart


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">the digestive tract


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">the brain


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Bold','sans-serif';">Cognitive Appraisal – The Filter Through Which Stressors Are Processed **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times-Roman','sans-serif';">According to the transactional model, what triggers the process of stress?