PSYC-339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psychotherapy, Gender Role, Voodoo Death
20 Sep 2017
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Physiology is triggered prior to cognitions, ex a person can have a feeling of anxiety. Cognitive science: how we acquire, process store and retrieve information. Implicit memory: automatic responses or low level responses we are unaware of; any force outside conscious awareness. Emotions: up until early 90"s no one studied emotions. Emotions cannot be assumed to align with cognitions. Emotion: the tendency to behave a certain way, elicited by an event, and a feeling state accompanied by a physiological response. Terminology: emotions defined as temporary states one feels; mood is the general tendency of feeling; affect: in the moment, but can also refer to long term ambiguous both general and specific. The problem now, is response is probably far more effective. Culture specific illness: ex susto: one is the subject of or withcraft, ostracized. Nocebo effect: if one believes something bad will happen, it can happen.
