PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Dont, Limbic System, Positive Psychology
3 Sep 2013
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Involves subjective conscious experience (cognitive element) accompanied by. Brain injury and lesion studies: looking at changes post-damage. Cognitive appraisals: more research on negative emotions. Focus on pathology, weakness, suffering, and not health, strength, well-being: new field: positive psychology . Complex interconnection between physiological responses and emotional expression. Involves many areas of the brain and hormonal systems. Epinephrine: produces changes in arousal, alertness. Emotions accompanied by visceral arousal: fight-or-flight response release of adrenal hormones, measured by polygraph. Attributed to marston (keeler and lee: currently, canadian courts do not allow polygraph results as evidence. Emotions expressed in body language: non-verbal behaviour, facial cues. Identification of 6 fundamental emotions: the emotions that are reliably recognized. Happiness, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, and contempt. Other emotions just not as reliable (shame, amusement, sympathy, etc) Neurons designed to react to observed behaviour. Empathy: exactly the same as when doing the same. Limbic system: was considered the seat of emotion.
