PSYC1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fidgeting, Tachycardia, Urination

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1024
• Professor: Dr Joshua Broderick

Document Summary

Wrote the principles of psychology in 1980- considered the most influential scien. Many of the postulations are still considered relevant, and likely correct, to this day. In summary: the bodily sensation/objective feeling of the emotion comes before the ap. E. g. heart pounding and compulsion to run away makes you feel fear! This theory set the tone for later theoretical understanding of emotion. It is a response to a situation requiring some action. Emotions are involuntarily derived- we experience the various emotions because. Emotions motivate (spur us to action) survival (avoiding death so that we can su. Disgust- protection from macro and micro parasitic threat. If you act a certain way, you will end up feeling that way. Discrete emotion theory suggests that there are six basic emotions which really form th. Complex emotions may be thought of as a combination of these six emotions. Evidence suggests these emotions are universally recognised and expressed.