PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Qualia, Electrodermal Activity, Biological Process
22 Nov 2016
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Feeling/affect: subjective experience, phenomenological awareness, cognition. Sense of purpose/action readiness: goal-directed motivational state, functional aspect. Social-expressive: social communication, facial expression, vocal, expression. Bodily arousal: physiological activation, bodily preparation for action, motor responses. Emotion as a motivation: emotions are one type of motive which energize and directs behaviours. Emotion as readout: emotion serves as an ongoing readout system to indicate how well or how poorly personal adaptation is going. Significant situational event: cognitive process, biological process. Utility of emotion: coping functions, social functions. Emotions: communicate our feelings to others, influence how others interact with us, invite and facilitate social interaction, create, maintain and dissolve relationships. 6 proposed basic facial expression: happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, anger, self-conscious (shame, guilt etc) Law of change: the greater the change in stimulus, the stronger the resulting emotions will be. Significant improve in life satisfaction and subjective health. Improvements where reported by the participants and those those to them.
