PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meta-Analysis, Cinnabon, Personal Grooming
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Psyc 2100 - lecture 3 emotion and affective response. You can"t be around people without having some type of emotional response to them even if its indifference. A number of things we need to consider for every emotion. In principle, emotions are one of the hardest phenomenon to classify due to physiological, cognitive, and social components. Difficult to separate ourselves from emotional responses. Positive affect dopamine and endorphins have both been associated with positive affect and learning. Oxytocin is associated with bonding and prosocial behavior: generally, involve dopamine learning systems (experiencing pleasure and reward) It is also involved in cross-modal associations as well as condition wherein affect is associated to neutral stimuli (e. g. , squire & zola- You can be high in positive affect and high in negative affect that"s what the experience of ambivalent it: ex. Going into a job interview: going to do so well, high stakes.