PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Subdominant, Reaction Formation, Orbitofrontal Cortex
25 Oct 2016
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Denial, repression (taking it out of conscious memory), fantasy (imagining things are different), reaction formation, projection, intellectualization, displacement, suppression (hold back feelings), sublimation (redirecting energies away from the real problems. Extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features to accomplish ones goals. Monitoring, awareness and attention, first things an infant can do. Evaluating, evaluating the significance, is it bad or good. To accomplish goals, which can be many different things, affiliation, protection. But what do we mean by an emotion, and an emotion state that needs to be regulated. Chole martin and dennis (2004: emotions as regulating, having an emotion makes you behave in different ways. Interpersonally, eg. caregivers emotion influences caregivers behavior: emotions as regulated. Must distinguish between external vs. internal behaviors; goal directed vs. unintentional behaviors; voluntary vs. involuntary.
