PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Botulinum Toxin, Thalamus, Goose Bumps
26 Apr 2016
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3 components of emotion: arousal physiological changes. Ex: butterflies in stomach, increase in hr, goose bumps, sweating: overt or expressive behavior. Ex: facial expression, body language, intonation: conscious experience (thoughts and feelings) We tend to place emotional experience along 2 dimensions: valence: + or , arousal: high or low. Ex: relaxed pleasant and low arousal enthusiastic pleasant and high arousal sluggish negative and low arousal fearful negative and high arousal. Believed different emotions have different patterns of physiological reactions. Ex: if you have heart beat increase, butterflies in stomach love. Ex: the dog makes me tremble and feel afraid . Did not count for the cognitive process: schachter"s 2 factor theory: Stimulus general arousal cognitive appraisal (you look into your environment to find a label for your emotion) emotional experience. Ex: explains why sometimes you have a gut feeling after meeting someone for the first time that you don"t like him or her.
