PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Major Depressive Disorder, Hypothalamus, Digestion
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Emotions and the thesaurus: the word happy has more than 50 synonyms including joy, bliss, rapture, pleasure, contentment, and gladness, even emotion has a number of synonyms: passion, desire, feelings. The nature of emotion: state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all shaped by cultural rules. Primary emotions: emotions considered to be universal and biologically based, fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, contempt. Secondary emotions: emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individual cultures, they are influenced by cognitive complexity, guilt and shame. The faces of emotion: evolutionary explanations suggest that emotions are hard-wired and exist to aid survival, ekman- first cross-cultural study of emotional expression. Involved in empathy, comprehension, imitation, and reading of emotions: only respond to intentional action, not accidental action. The mind of emotion: how thoughts create emotions, we interpret the physiological arousal based on our assessment of the context.
