PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Orgasm, Duration Neglect, Therapeutic Touch
11 May 2016
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Emotions are important guides for thought and behavior. A brief, specific response (focus: intentional object) both psychological and physiological that helps people meet goals, including social goals. Vs: mood (last longer, hours, days) ex: feeling blue. Vs: mood/emotional disorders (last weeks, months, years feeling depressed) Evolutionary approaches: emotions have functions that were adaptive in our ancestral environment , and increase our chance of survival as a species. Emotions are biologically based behavioral adaptations meant to promote survival and reproduction: e. g. avoiding danger: when we experience fear, we are more likely to flee the threat. If this is correct then logically it follows that physiological responses to emotions (facial expressions, heart rate, breathing, vocalizations, and so on) should be cross-culturally universal (and even shared with common ancestors, great apes) Cultural approaches: humans have also continued to evolve through the passing down of.
