PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pleasure, 18 Months, Display Rules
2 Mar 2020
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Emotion: an immediate, specific, +/- response to environmental events or internal thoughts: physiological process: heart beating quickly, behavioural response: eyes and mouth opening, feeling based on cognitive appraisal: i"m scared . Mood: diffuse, long-lasting state, no identifiable trigger. ** primary emotions: are innate, evolutionarily adaptive and universal (shared across cultures)** Universal: derived from shared evolutionary process, present at birth, present in other animals. Automatic: activated rapidly, lower brain regions that are evolutionarily old. Distinct: from other emotions, function, physiology, antecedent events and resulting cognitions. Disgust: response to an aversive or repulsive stimulus. Happiness: response to pleasure or positive feelings that are enjoyed and sought after i. e. sensory pleasure, amusements, relief, etc. The colour bar reflects the extent of increasing or decreasing activity: basic/primary emotions: warmer/red, high order emotions: cold/ blue. **blends of primary emotions, such as, remorse, guilt** Valence and arousal circumplex map of emotions: emotions can be categorized by valence (+/-) and by level of arousal (low high)
