Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Schadenfreude, Amygdule, Panic Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

Document Summary

Motivators : emotions channels us toward specific things. Evolutionary theory, developed over the course of evolution. The theory that humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are rooted in our biology. Happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, anger and contempt. Secondary emotions: blends of primary emotions ex frustration includes. Pride may also be a primary emotion anger and sadness. schadenfreude the mockery of a high level(politician) person that figuratively falls. Mood: affect state, most pronounced as change in subjective feeling of low (e. g. , cheerful, gloomy, irritable, listless, depressed, buoyant) Other: powerful feeling that are commonly with us (tranquility, comfort) intensity but relatively long duration, often without apparent cause. We have experienced relatively few situations in our past that demand a response. Emotions are helping us deal with life/death situations. Several conceptualizations of emotion focus on the role of cognition in emotion.