PSYB10H3 Lecture 5: Lecture-5-Notes
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What is an emotion: brief, specific response to goal-relevant, physiological and psychological, specific, motivational states. Emotions motivate behaviour: emotions motivate behaviour to achieve goals, psychological effects that drive behaviour, physiological effects that help the organism achieve goals. Initial, quick appraisal made of an event or circumstance (e. g. spiders, cats: secondary appraisal stage, later appraisal, which concerns why we feel the way we do and how we would like to respond. Delicious happiness: facial expression (sometimes, universality of facial. Emotions and social cognition: emotions have wide-ranging effects on how we process information and make judgments. If you broke up with your boyfriend/girlfriend today, in six months do you think you"d be: A: less happy than if you stayed together. D: i"m not in a relationship: affective forecasting is often incorrect. Don": sex, socializing, relaxing, prayer/meditation, eating, how to be (un)happy, what activities make people unhappy, commuting, work, housework, computer/internet, childcare.
