PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thought Suppression, Sexual Orientation, Leptin
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Emotions are feelings that involve subjections evaluations, physiological processes, and cognitive beliefs: subjective component people experience emotions differently. Ex: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, contempt. Ex: remorse, guilt, shame, anticipation, pride, jealousy, etc . The circumplex map of emotions shows emotions on a spectrum: activation vs valence, arousal physiological activation or increased automatic response, negative and positive affect, negative affect: bad mood. Independent: can experience both simultaneously: governed by different systems. Emotions are linked to physiological changes: our bodies exhibit changes when we feel sad/embarrassed/excited, amygdala. Processes emotional content of stimuli: helps generate immediate emotional response, helps link emotion with events. James-lang theory emotions happen after a physiological reaction. There is an eliciting stimulus that causes autonomic arousal behavior responses and results in conscious emotion: a bear makes you jump that makes you scared, we are sad because we cry. Facial feedback hypothesis facial expressions can influence emotions as well as reflect them.
