PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Positive Illusions, Hyperconnected Space, Limbic System
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Have distinct subjective feelings, or affects, associated with them. Accompanied by bodily changes, mostly in the nervous system, and these produce associated changes in breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, blood chemistry, and facial and bodily expressions. Accompanied by distinct action tendencies = increases in the probabilities of certain behaviors. The activity, or action tendencies, associated with fear is to flee or to flight. Other theories: emphasize the functions that emotions play, such as generating short-term adaptive actions that help us survive. Functional analysis: focuses on the why of emotions and expressions. Darwin concluded that emotional expressions communicate information from one animal to another about what is likely to happen. Personality psychologists approach emotion with an interest in how and why people differ from each other in terms of emotions. Depend more on the situation a person is in than on the specific person. Have specific cause and this cause typically originates outside the person environment: emotional trait.
