Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mental Model, Mary Ainsworth, Evolutionary Medicine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Alexandra Twyman

Document Summary

Emotion = rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation and prepares you for action. Express readiness to establish, maintain or change your relation to the enviro on a matter of personal importance. = the broad function of emotions is to energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals. Believes it is central in all endeavors like cognitive processing, social behavior, physical health. Emotions arise from ongoing exchange btwn the person and the environment. Emotion-cognition bidirectional relationship: emotions can lead to learning essential to survival. Evident in anxiety: high anxiety impairs complex thinking (diverts attention from cog processing to task-irrelevant threatening stimuli) Affects memory: young kids more upset by visit to doctor"s office remembers the experience better (paid more attention to things that threatened them) Bidirectionality: babies pull string => sound => happy, no sound => sad/mad, sound again=> renewed interest and enjoyment for angry ones vs sad babies turned away.