PSY494H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vasoconstriction, Vasodilation, Intellectualization
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Differing evaluations: not all dogs like baths, can the basic emotions perspective explain this difference in preference, or can the jamesian perspective explain it, neither explain the evaluation of the event, basic emotions: hard wired (cid:224) doesn"t make sense here, jamesian: physiology (cid:224) doesn"t explain opposite reactions to same thing. Cognitive perspective: appraisal: categorize events in the envt emotional states arise from how we appraise and, for cognitivists, cognition precedes somatic & emotional responses, can"t have emotion w/o cognition, emotions as a dynamic fluid process that changes. Performing an unlearned task in the presence of others elicited pattern associated w threat: increase in heart rate vs. when alone, increased bp vs. when alone, cognition (cid:224) emotion (cid:224) physiology, cannot do it! (cid:224) threat: increased cardiac output (co), increased bp, vasoconstriction, can do it! (cid:224) challenge: increased co, decrease in bp, vasodilation.
