PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Happy Wedding, Social Intuitionism, Moral Psychology
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Emotion: brief, specific response to goal-relevant events. Lecture five: physiological and psychological components, are motivational states, related to survival and social functioning, main components of emotions: The glands, organs, and blood vessels controlled by the brain and spinal cord that regulate the bodily responses to the environment. Increased heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure aid in physically demanding action. Parasympathetic branch returns the body to its resting state. Decreased heart rate and blood pressure, and increased digestive processes. How objects and events in our environment are evaluated relative to our current goals. Primary appraisal stage: initial quick appraisal made of an event or circumstance. Lead to an initial pleasant or unpleasant feeling. Secondary appraisal stage: later appraisal, which concern why we feel the way we do and how we would like to respond. Facial expressions are recognized cross-culturally: universality of facial expressions.
