PSYC-104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lateral Hypothalamus, Robert Sternberg, Positive Illusions
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Emotion: mental state or feeling associated with our evaluation of our experiences. Emotion is a motivated state marked by physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and mental experience. Discrete memory theory: humans experience a small number of distinct emotions even if they combine in complex ways. Each emotion is associated with a distinct motor program : a set of genetically influenced physiological responses that are essentially the same in all of us. Primary emotions: small number of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross- culturally universal. Our brains create an enormous array of secondary emotions from a small number of. Each primary emotion is associated with a distinctive constellation of facial expressions. Fear is specific to the amygdala primary emotions. The secondary emotion of alarm seems to be a mixture of fear and surprise. The secondary emotion of hatred seems to be a mixture of anger and disgust. Display rules: cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions.