PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sympathetic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
22 Oct 2016
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To most people emotion means a feeling or mood. Emotion: an individual state that occurs in response to either an external or an internal even which occur in response to biologically significant stimuli (life-threatening or promoting) Like motivated states, they often produce action (away or toward) Emovere (latin): to remove, displace, move (cid:862) o(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:373)akes it diffi(cid:272)ult to predi(cid:272)t ho(cid:449) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s (cid:449)ill (cid:271)eha(cid:448)e. (cid:863) Emotions have three main components: physiological components. Changes in bodily arousal, such as increased heart rate, body temperature and respiration: cognitive component. The subjective appraisal and interpretatio(cid:374) of a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s feeli(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d surrounding environment: behavioural component. The expression of emotion through verbal or non-verbal channels, such as smiling, frowning, whining, laughing, reflecting or slouching. Much debate over interplay of these three components: which components come first, what is the role of thinking in emotion, physiological component. Bodily arousal we feel when experiencing an emotion.
