HPS304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Declared Rare And Priority Flora List
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Need to experience preferences, desires, sorrows, to ensure we care about ourselves and others. Suggested to be the basic prototypes where most emotions can be included. Anger: signals needs and desires were blocked, motivates an attack to remove block. Problems occur when norms limit the expression of certain emotions. In a relationship of high trust: but you express jealousy and that is deemed inappropriate or dysfunctional. Under what conditions are various emotions generated in relationships. Interdependent nature of relationships means that people rely on each other to meet their needs and goals. Under conditions where pre-existing behavioural patterns are interrupted that move people either further away or close to goals. Other factors: novelty of situation, perceived cause, legitimacy, perceived controllability, Interruptive events: the appraisal of relevance activates the emotions system, which in turn arouses and motivates us to take remedial action: ex.