PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Evolutionary Psychology, Egocentrism, Gender Role
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People also have affective response to emergency response. Greater consideration of the role of affect. Assuming that the actor has interpret situation as emergency. Then goes through orientation and defence reactions. Orienting reaction = decrease in physiological arousal. Allow the actor to access the situation and access what"s the best way to responses without panicking. Tends to be out of conscious control. Defence reaction = rapid increase in physiological arousal. Similar physiological arousal for different emotions, so how do we know what we are actually experiencing. See someone suffer -- we experience arousal likely distress -- label that as distress physiological arousal. Want to selfishly motivated to help to get rid of the feeling. Calculating the costs of helping or not helping. The cost of helping vs the cost of not helping. Does the costs of helping outweigh the costs of not helping. What do i get and don"t get.
