PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thalamus, Heart Rate, Amygdala
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Emotion: the "feeling" aspect of consciousness; characterized by a certain physical arousal, a certain behavior that reveals the emotion to the outside world, and an inner awareness of feelings. Display rules: learned ways of controlling displays of emotion in social settings. Adaptation-level phenomenon: tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level. Relative deprivation: defined by our prior experience, perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. Other emotions are anger, fear, disgust, surprise and sadness. Common sense theory of emotion: when 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) James-lange theory of emotion: a stimulus leads to bodily arousal first, which is then interpreted as an emotion: not many people supported it, but it makes sense now.
