PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Physical Attractiveness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Behavior how you react and what you do. Long term stress is bad but short term is good. Before james-lange, you would have feeling/emotion and then the bodily reaction will ensue. After, you get the arousal body reaction and then the emotion comes afterwards. You get the feeling and then the reaction itself. The mind plays a big role in how we feel. This is because some people might be excited to do the exam and someone might be nervous but both have a pounding hear. It has subjective appraisal of the event and this is important. Too high anxiety, you will have no performance. Need a good balanced arousal level to be focused and perform the best possible. There is a cortical response which is processing what is happening and a limbic which is physiological and both together make you feel emotionl and so there is a physiological response and a subjective awareness of emotion.