PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Social Emotions, Alexithymia, Psych

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Marco Preussner

Document Summary

The term emotion and mood are often used interchangeably in everyday language, but it is useful to distinguish between them. cognitive beliefs. Emotions typically interrupt whatever is happening, or trigger changes in thought and behaviour. Emotions are the spice of life, makes life worth living. You"re able to enjoy certain aspects of your life. Rather than interrupting what is happening, they influence thought and behaviour. can start with an emotion . We experience emotions subjectively; we know we are experiencing emotions because we feel them. One cause of the alexithymia is that the physiological messages associated with emotions do not reach the brain centers that interpret emotion. Damage to certain brain regions, especially the prefrontal cortex, is associated with a loss of emotion"s subjective component. Happiness by itself, motivation that you get from that is keep doing what you"re doing but that"s.