PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 9
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Towards a holistic perspective: motivation is extremely complicated. When one is engaged in avoiding activity (their right frontal system engages: anxiety: kim basinger famous actress who has experienced considerable, what systems are involved in her disorder months anxiety. What is emotion? characterize emotions: temporal component: duration of emotion, situational emotion: mood neighbor, expression flinched, moved away from screen, hugged, subjective fear, disgust, physiological increased heart rate, increased perspiration correlated. For most activities, these three systems are only weakly related. They can be controlled very differently: for events that elicit strong reactions, these activities are highly, acting (appearing excited), playing poker, trying to exercise. Natural kinds : emotional experience-subjective experience what people report ; Circumplex : emotions are characterized by two separate systems, those controlling valence (pleasant to unpleasant) and those controlling intensity/arousal (from high to low arousal/activation: based on emotional expression; 6 different kinds says that they feel at the same time.
