PSY 1102 Lecture 1: Chapter 12

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Emotion: a response of the whole organism involving (1) physiological arousal (2) expressive behaviours and (3) conscious experience. Emotions are a mix of bodily arousal (heart pounding); expressive behaviors (quickened pace); and conscious experience, including thoughts (cid:523)(cid:498)is this a kidnapping? (cid:499)(cid:524) and feelings (cid:523)panic, fear, joy(cid:524). Or did my sense of fear come first, stirring my heart and legs to respond?) Does cognition always come before emotion? (did i think about a. Adaptation level phenomenon: our tendency to form judgments (of sounds lights and income) relative to neutral level defined by prior experience. Definition: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Common sense tells most of us that we cry because were sad and lash out because were angry tremble because were afraid etc. Pioneering psychologist william james the common sense theory was wrong. James believed we were sorry because we cries: angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble.