PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autonomic Nervous System, Nonverbal Communication, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

I- introduction - 3 components: physiological arousal - bodily (ex: fast heartbeat, sweaty palms, etc. , behavioral expressions (ex: afraid, freeze, run away, subjective experience: conscious experience of thoughts (ex: i feel scared ). Can be maladaptive (ex: so mad burn house down). 2 dimensions: valence: how pleasant/unpleasant an emotion is, arousal: how physiologically aroused the body is. The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotional arousing stimuli. *arousal comes before emotion (ex: see snake, then run, then feel afraid) Common sense (ex: see snake and feel afraid) The theory that an emotional arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion. *arousal and emotion occur at the same time (ex: see snake, run, feel afraid) Physiological is similar across emotions (ex: heartbeat fast when angry and mad). Emotion we end up feeling depends on cognitive label we put on arousal.