PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Transgressive Fiction, Stress Management, Cognitive Therapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

A functional perspective suggests emotions are signals to motivation. Ex survival and fear; need to belong and guilt. Well suited to help us manage the push of biological processes and the pull of socio- cultural processes. Bodily arousal conscious experience thoughts , especially the labeling of emotion". Agreement that emotions function as one type of motivator but views about their importance vary. Early psych focused on the psychological drives as motivators. Followed by a view that for humans emotions were the casual and immediate sources of . Read out of the persons ever changing motivational states. Our emotions directly follow the responses of our physiological reactions to a stimuli. Our emotions occur simultaneously with our physiological reactions to a stimuli. Emotions are the result of the physiological responses and the cognitive appraisal of the responses. Some emotional reactions (fears, likes and dislikes) develop in a low road" through the brain.