PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frontal Lobe, Amygdala, Human Body
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Emotion is a full body/mind/behavioural response to a situation. Conscious experience: thoughts, especially the labelling of the emotion. Emotion is our conscious awareness of our physiological responses to stimuli. We feel afraid because we tremble, sorry because we cry . Conscious/cognitive experience of an emotion at the same time as our body is responding. Human body responses run parallel to the cognitive responses, rather than causing them. Emotions are not just a separate mental experience. When our body responses are blocked, emotions do not feel as intense. Our cognitions in uence our emotions in many ways, including our itnerpretations of stimuli. Emotions do not exist until we add a label to whatever body sensations we are feeling. Participants were injected with adrenaline ( ght or ight hormone) Subjects interpreted their agitation to whatever emotion the others in the room appeared to be feeling. Participants placed in angry room felt angry. Spillover effect: emotional label spilled over from others.
