PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Proof, Vending Machine, Social Loafing
16 Apr 2018
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Emotion & motivation: what does it mean that emotions vary on valence (how +/- experience is) and arousal (tied to physiological activity, how active or intense an experience or mild/passive)? emotions = positive/negative experiences. Comprised of : subjective experience= conscious (feeling nervous, physiological response= gut feeling, heart racing, body reaction, behavioral response= what we do in the moment, subtle (change in body language), literal (run away) Ideal affect= in terms of culture, is the best way to feel emotion ( good": functions of emotions. There was a video contrasting a typically developing person and someone with frontal lobe damage. No anticipatory response before, doesn"t get arousal reaction. Three main ideas in regard to facial expressions. Three main ideas related to where there were similarities across cultures but also cultural differences. Models of self (way of thinking about yourself, culture encourages different things) find appropriate ones. Cultural context in way grow up shapes how you value emotions and.
