PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Anston, Sexual Orientation, Eye Contact
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Emotions are a mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and consciously experienced thoughts. Darwin"s ideas (from the expression of emotions in man and animals, 1872) Expressions of emotions are innate (inborn), not learned. Meaning of certain patterns of nonverbal emotional expression is understood by all members of the species. Expressions have adaptive value, because they control the behavior of others (ex: ward off attacks, courting) Displaying a facial activity associated with a behavior (ex: smiling) leads to feeling the emotion (happiness) (subjective emotions follow automatic physiological reactions) People (and chimps) physically mimic the responses of others particularly in distress. James-lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness/noticing/realizing of our physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli. Emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment. Cannon-bard theory: the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotions.
