PSY 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Counterfactual Thinking, Interpersonal Communication

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 311
• Professor: Ray Winters

Document Summary

Emotion as information: comparison of blue ribbon emotions and automatic emotions. Functions of automatic emotions: provides affective feedback used in decision-making. That is, are they both conscious emotions: blue ribbon emotions are always conscious (always shows the subjective-experiential component, automatic emotions are sometimes conscious and may be very strong (example of. Julie"s fear of birds; peter"s anger and fear); but often they are unconscious emotions: when conscious, it is typically experienced as a quick twinge ( gut feeling or. Intuition ) of something feeling good or bad, feeling right, a hunch. Which components of an emotion are always seen in an unconscious emotion: the somatic and motivational component. In what ways do the two types of emotion influence a person"s motivational state: automatic emotions: the activation of approach or avoidance tendencies only (either. Go for it, or avoid) much like a reflexive response: negative blue ribbon emotions increase the motivation to change the behavior that led to the negative emotion.