PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Paul Ekman, Folk Psychology, Multidimensional Scaling

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

1: what are emotions? a)emotions are hard to study, because we rarely experience a single emotion at once, also, because we have many contradictory ways of thinking about emotions. Study visual perception we can limit what you see- show just blue light. Can"t separate emotions, kids drive us crazy- but we love them. We think emotions are one thing but at the same time we think they are the exact opposite. Ie emotions are what makes us human beings, at the same time emotions rob us of his assassination: what are emotions? a)emotions are hard to study, humanity ii. action iii. control iv. adaptive v. positive or negative & both. 3: what are emotions? a)what are emotions, emotions are a positive or negative experience associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity. Twinki effect, defense that due to junk food/bad diet your judgment is impaired. Emotions give us the ability to act in the world. (ie running into burning building)