PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Sports Game
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Lecture 2: - natural kind view: emotions carve nature at its joints the emotion is the basic unit i. e. cell or molecule. Nominal: emotions are the product of more basic psychological ingredients (can be natural kinds) i. e. core affect language, contextual info combine to anger happiness etc. Not all appraisals with be central to determining that emotions i. e. novelty of shock. Combine diff appraisals and end up with diff experience; something happens. Constructivist: basic psychological ingredients are transformed into instances of discrete emotions. Stimulus changes core affect and prompted to bring conceptual knowledge. Resulting in responses to deal with emotions. Good a pattern detections if we experience similar circumstances we convey emotion. Categorizing experiences and create response that has meaning because we lumped it together. Core affect arousal (low or high) or pleasant/unpleasant always having core affect. It is at the core of all our emotional experiences.
