PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Electrodermal Activity, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Extraversion And Introversion
27 Nov 2016
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This approach examines what features of stimulus changes are responsible for emotions. It assumes that emotions are caused by persons reactions to changing events in their environment but ignores how they may appraise those events. Valence: stimuli are experienced as negative or positive. Relationships: psychological interactions with or distance from the event. The interaction between these two determine what emotion is experienced: emotion have evolutionary significance, different combinations (table 14. 1 on page 368, emotional category provides additional information so that the appropriate adaptive response will result. Different appraisals of the same event produce different emotions. The same appraisal of different events produces the same emotion. The outcome of the appraisal process elicits the involuntary unfolding of emotion. Appraisal can occur above and below cognitive awareness. Processes of natural and sexual selection helped solve issues experienced in the past. Appraisal emphasizes how the stimulus event as evaluated or as appraised evokes the emotion.
