PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Procrastination, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Insulin

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

Document Summary

Men often turn to alcohol or drugs when dealing with depression etc. rather than seeking healthy treatment. A functional perspective suggests emotions motivate our actions: ex. survival and fear. Well-suited to help us manage the push of biological processes and the pull of socio-cultural forces. No real speci c start or endpoint to loop. James-lange theory: our emotions directly follow the response of out physiological reactions to a stimuli, ex. see oncoming car -> heart pounds (arousal) - fear (emotion) Cannon-bard theory: our emotions occur simultaneously with out physiological reactions to a stimulus, ex. the arousal and emotion happen simultaneously. Schachter-singer two-factor theory: emotion = body + a label: emotions are the result of the physiological and the cognitive appraisal of this response, arousal and cognitive label = emotion, cognition comes before emotion. Robert zajonc: some emotions do not require high track (develop in a low road) processing (fears, likes and dislikes , thus skip conscious thought.