PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Negative-Feedback Amplifier, Impact Bias, Autonomic Nervous System
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Adaptation-level phenomenon: tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level brightness of lights volume of sound level of income, defined by our prior experience. Relative deprivation: perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. For example, these faces are consistently interpreted as showing (a) anger, (b) fear, (c) disgust, (d) happiness, (e) surprise, and (f) sadness by people of various cultures from all over the world. Although the situations that cause these emotions may differ from culture to culture, the expression of particular emotions remains strikingly the same. In the common sense theory of emotion, a stimulus (snarling dog) leads to an emotion of fear, which then leads to bodily arousal (in this case, indicated by shaking) through the autonomic nervous system (ans). A stimulus leads to bodily arousal first, which is then interpreted as an emotion. Cannon-bard theory of stimulus, first response, second response emotion:
