PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hadit, Blood Transfusion, Autonomic Nervous System
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Brief lasts seconds to minutes, days to weeks would be mood. Specific elicited by specific event in the environment. Motivational states motivate us to act a certain way to accomplish certain goal: emotion motivate behaviour: Physiological effects that help the organism achieve goals: components of emotions: Autonomic nervous system (the system we have no control over) sympathetic response (fight or flight response) Stuff like ingestion would be inhibited when sympathetic response is activated (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t afford to do that now because of emergency. Parasympathetic (return us to normal) does the opposite of the sympathetic response. This can happen in the absence of any real threat, it can be triggered by your appraisal of the environment. The perception that matters not the reality: cognitive appraisals: How objects and events in our environment are evaluated relative to our current goals. Different appraisals different emotions even if they are experiencing the exact same event.
