PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Antithesis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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Emotion a patterned collection of chemical and neural responses that is produced by the brain when it detects the presence of an emotionally competent stimulus. Feelings mental representations of the physiological changes that characterize emotion. Dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e of e(cid:373)otio(cid:374: serviceable associated habits, learned behaviours that became innate because of their usefulness, ex. Dog bearing teeth prepare for biting or signal threat to leave: antithesis, behaviours associated with opposite kinds of feelings are often expressed in opposite kinds of behaviour, ex. Smile for happy frown for sad: direct action of the nervous system, emotional expressions occur because of changes in the nervous system activity, ex. Trembling when scared: recognition of emotional states, we recognize certain behaviours as indicating that an individual is in a particular emotional state and we can alter our behaviour accordingly.