PSY 202 Lecture 4: emotion & motivation
8 Feb 2017
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Mental state/physiological response to internal & external experiences. Shown through physiology (hormones, neurotransmitters), expressive behaviour (gestures, posture), and mental experience (thoughts, confusion, conclusions) Question: extreme heightened emotions also tend to cause a person to make bad decisions. Interpersonal: helps a person know and care for others, sometimes to manipulate others for personal gain, sometimes to better grease the social wheel: social context: understanding one another allows for a more cohesive society. Discrete emotions theory: there are a small number of discrete emotions which combine in complex ways to form all the other emotions: ek(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s 7 p(cid:396)i(cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:455) e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s (cid:894)thi(cid:374)k inside out +2): happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, Anger, surprise, contempt: secondary emotions are built from combinations of these primary 7, ekman found these compelling primary emotions while studying in a rural new guinea population. Cannon-bard: theorized that physiological response and recognition of the emotion occur at the same time, triggered by the experience.
