PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fidel Castro, Fore People, Nasal Spray

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Chapter 6: emotion (194-227) (cid:862) (cid:455)(cid:373)path(cid:455) (cid:271)reakthrough(cid:863) duri(cid:374)g world war ii. Brought people fro(cid:373) a (cid:862)fight-or-flight(cid:863) pattern of action to one of altruism and concern. Emotion: a brief, specific response, both psychological and physiological, that helps people meet goals, many of which are social. Help motivate and guide appropriate goal-directed behavior that supports stronger and smoother social relationships. Mood: a feeling that can last for hours and even days. Emotional disorders: like depression or gad; can last for weeks, months, and even years. Appraisal process: a component of emotions; patterns of construal for evaluating events and objects in the environment based on their relation to current goals. Fast, automatic appraisals of whether an event is consistent or inconsistent with our goals lead to general pleasant or unpleasant feelings. Appraisals of causality transform initial pleasant or unpleasant feelings into more specific emotions, such as fear, anger, pride, gratitude or sympathy. Emotions involve physiological responses, such as the blush response of embarrassment.