PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: The Anatomy Of Dependence, Alexithymia
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Split-brain operation is where doctors separate the left side of the cortex from the right to stop epilepsy and the corpus callosum is severed. When events are evaluated, the evaluative process is called appraisal. Primary appraisal is automatic and reflexive and has nothing to do with language. Secondary appraisal is when emotions are then usually directed to particular objects and people can often be described in words. Lazarus proposed that appraisals involve evaluative judgments of how good or bad an event is for the person. Another theme is that appraisal concerns the individual"s goals and aspirations. Appraisal approach is critical to the study of emotions as processes that articulate events with people"s goals and that it is superior to any conceptualization that has no relation to goals, or a different relation to goals. We process stimuli through several different systems.
