PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hand Washing, Control Room, Thalamus
9 Nov 2016
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Ppl tend to use emotion, mood, & affect interchangeably they"re diff. Affect: automatic classification of emotions into good (positive) or bad (negative) Mood: feeling or state that"s not associated w/ event. Automatic affect: quick response, usually interpretation of good or bad, occurring outside of consciousness, automatic response. Conscious emotion: experience of unified feeling state, such as happiness, anger, or sadness, conscious reaction. Emotions aren"t 1 dimensional have mental & physical aspects. 2-d model of suggests every emotion can vary according to: pleasantness (mental), arousal (physiological) # of theories have been developed to explain link b/w emotion & arousal: james lange, cannon bard, schachter singer. Prior to experience of emotions, we 1st process stimuli, have physiological response to that stimuli, & then experience emotion based on interpretation of physiological response. Emotional stimulus -> physiological arousal -> experienced emotion. Facial feedback hypothesis: your facial expression can result in feedback to brain to indicate your emotion: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wr9ltqrktyw.
