PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chlorpromazine, Anchoring, Life Satisfaction
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History of emotion: evolutionary perspectives: feelings in action- esmotion. First use of the term emotion was coined by french in 1570- to describe the act of. Ancient china: 7 emotions: happiness, anger, worry, anxiety, sad, fear, terror. Qi (ki)- energy that surges through body, and excession emotion discrupts it and impair internal organs and impairs heart. Excessive anger: qi moves upwards, impair live causes headaches, and joy relaxes qi. Expressing emotions with face was seen as negative. First physiological account of emotions and emphasis on brain>heart. Hot (blood) wet phlegm (cold) black (dry) yellow back to hot fever was hot and dry. 3 parts: 2 and 3 constitute emotions: logical, appetitive, spirited served as mediator. Our state (disposition, reasoning) is important in shaping pathos. Moral virtue: result of habit, cultivation of appropriate emotional responses. Epicureanism vs. stocism: emerged in 300 bce, free will idealism, ideas of self-control vs emotion reappear. Pursuit of simple pleasures, prevention, ataraccia: freedom from fear/pain.
