PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Microexpression, Determinism, Oral Stage

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Visual stimulus (bear) is associated with the general emotion of fear which causes a physiological response. Flipped the common sense theory- put physiological response before the emotional experience. Unique physiological responses create the feeling and not the other way around. Prediction: if you can induce a physiological response, then it will produce the corresponding emotional experience. Inducing a facial expression (such a a frown or a smile) can have mild effects on how people feel. Separate, parallel processes- proposed that the stimulus will cause a physiological and emotional response simultaneously. Evidence against separateness: emotional experience affected by bodily response. E. g. quadriplegics report less intense anger experiences. Different emotions can have similar arousal properties: feelings that one interprets as fear in the presence of a sheer drop may be interpreted as lust in the presence of a sheer blouse. Cognitive appraisal determines which emotion is attributed to arousal. Note: covered in special section on pp 483-485.