PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Facial Expression, Communication
11 Dec 2016
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Motivatio & Eotio
November 21, 2016
Emotions and Moods
What is an emotion?
• Feelings/Affect
o Subjective experience – feelings, your experience
o Phenomenological awareness
o Cognition
• Bodily Arousal
o Physiological activation
o Bodily preparation for action
o Motor responses
• Social-Expressive
o Social communication
o Facial expression
o Vocal expression
• Sense of Purpose/Action Readiness
o Goal-directed motivational sate
o Functional aspect
EX. Fear
• Feelings/Affect
o Scared
• Bodily Arousal
o Pumped up/adrenaline
• Social-Expressive
o Tense
o Eyes wide
• Sense of Purpose/Action Readiness
o Self-protection
Emotion as Motivation
• Emotions are one type of motive which energizes and directs behaviour
• “ere as a ogoig readout syste to idicate ho ell or poorly persoal
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