PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Positive Illusions, Frontal Lobe, Social Rejection

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen P Lewis

Document Summary

Accompanied by action tendencies: increase in the probability of certain behaviours. Issues in emotion research: emotional states: transitory. Apply statistical techniques to identify the basic dimensions underlying the ratings. Valence: two primary dimension of emotions: pleasant and unpleasant. Style of emotions: content: what emotions someone experiences, style: the way in which an emotion is experienced, happiness: Research on happiness: part of being happy is to have positive illusion about the self. Report more satisfying relationships: reciprocal causality: the idea that causality can ow in both directions. Associated with activate anterior cingulate (eg. during social rejection) Increased activation of right per frontal cortex (involved in regulation emotion) Richer networks of association for memories with negative emotions. May pay more attention to unpleasant information: depression (sadness) Cognitive triad: information about the self, the world, and the future. Helps people to identify & change distorted thoughts & beliefs in order to change them (to be more realistic).