PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: George Lakoff, Ego Ideal, Ophanim
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Iq, perosnality, language, and ability to engage in. Appraisal and emotion appraisal: when events are evaluated, assigned value in terms of the indivs concerns: this is the evaluative process. Primary appraisal: automatic; like a reflex, & need have nothing to do w language secondary appraisal: when emotions are directed to particular objects and ppl & can often be described in words. Historical background & concepts the concept of evaluation in relation to an indivs concerns goes back 2,400yr, to aristotle. Stoic, chrysippus: distinguished btn what we called first movements of emotions automatic; & second movements mental & inolve judgement/decision, believed that one cannot avoid the first movoemtns; they occur in the body & we cant do anything about htem. But, since 2nd movements involve thought, they are more, up to us . The idea of 1nd movements of bad emotions (angry reventge, greedy slefshness) was transformed to the.
