PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Precognition, Frontal Lobe, Amygdala
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Emotion - strong feeling (relatively uncontrollable feelings accompanied by physiological changes that often affect our behavior; immediate response to environmental events like being cut off in traffic or by being surprised by a nice gift from a friend) Mood - diffuse and long standing emotional states that influence rather than interrupt thoughts and behaviour plutchik - 8 basic emotions, others are combos amygdala and frontal lobe. Left hemi for pos emotions right hemi for neg emotions. Emotions we feel are result of messages we receive from our bodies when they react to emotional aspects of the environment. And sends messages to cortex that tells the person what they"re feeling. Emotion is the result of an interaction between internal arousal and cognitive processes. Human social behaviour is determined by natural selection. Emotions involve relationship of feelings of one person toward something else. Anxiety- vague unpleasant feeling accompanied by a premonition that something bad is about to happen.
