PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Human Sexual Response Cycle
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Schachter and singer"s two-factor theory: asserts that emotions. Multidimensional scaling: psychologists use this technique to create a map of experiences by having people rate the similarity are inferences about the causes of physiological arousal. Our bodily activity and our mental activity are both the causes and the consequences of our emotional experience. of dozens of emotional experiences. Appraisal: an evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a. Maps reveal the dimensions on which those things vary. Emotional experiences differ on two dimensions called valence (how positive or negative the experience is) and arousal (how active or passive the experience is). Emotion: a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity. William james: bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact and feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion .
