PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Appraisal Theory
12 Jul 2018
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Developed primarily through the work of prominent researchers magda arnold and. Appraisal : the act or process of developing an opinion, judgment, or assessment of the. Emotions fundamentally depend on cognitive processes - how people interpret or. Appraise the relationship between events in the world and their goals and values. We experience emotions when there"s a change in the status of a goal. And a response is required (ex: must revise our goals and beliefs, construct new plans) Positive attitude about a date = good date + good emotions vs negative attitude about a date = bad date + bad emotions. Diff emotions are evoked by diff interpretations of events and followed by diff motivations and problem solving strategies. Emotions are extracted from our appraisals (i. e. , our evaluations, interpretations, and explanations) of events. These appraisals lead to different specific reactions in different people. Our interpretation of a situation causes an emotional response that is based on that interpretation.
