PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Electrodermal Activity, Communication, Facial Expression
23 Dec 2016
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Bodily arousal: physiological activation, bodily preparation for action, motor responses. Sense of purpose/action readiness: goal-directed motivational state, functional aspect. Social-expressive: social communication, facial expression, vocal expression. Emotion as motivation: emotions are one type of motive which energizes and direct behaviour. Emotion as readout: e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s ser(cid:448)e as a(cid:374) o(cid:374)goi(cid:374)g (cid:862)readout(cid:863) syste(cid:373) to i(cid:374)dicate ho(cid:449) (cid:449)ell oe ho(cid:449) poorly personal adaptation is going. They all direct behaviour to where it is needed: social functions. Emotions: emerge from significant life situations and appraisals of their significance to our well- being (antecedents) Influence behaviour and direct specific courses of action (action-specificity: emanate from short-lived events (time course) Moods: emerge from ill-define processes (antecedents) Influence cognition and direct what the person thinks about (action-specificity: emanate from long-lived mental events (time course) James-lange theory: emotion stimulus -> physiological response -> affective experience. Cognitive theory of arousal: a specific affective experience results form the interpretation of the event, quality.
