PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nonverbal Communication, Tachycardia, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

3 components to emotions: physiological arousal (ex. Conscious experience of what you"re feeling and thinking. Emotions are adaptive, essential for survival and maladaptive. Our ability to feel emotions enhances our ability to make smart choices. Most people describe emotions on 2 emotions: valence (how pleasant or unpleasant an emotion is, arousal (how physiological our arousal is) The question: how do the three components fit together. The james-lange theory: common sense: subjective experience comes first. The often 2 components then follow along in our emotions/reactions: according to j-l: physiological arousal and behavioral activation comes first which activates subjective experience. B. canon- bard theory: all 3 components of emotions will activate simultaneously but independently of each other, shacter"s theory (two factor theory, in order for us to experience an emotion. There must by physiological arousal (similar across emotions) The emotion we will end up feeling depends on the cognitive label we put on the physiological arousal.