PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Psychiatric Association, Sympathetic Nervous System, Behaviorism
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Paul thomas young- deals with animals and human emotions. Social, which are based upon previous experience, education, training: moods- of cheerfulness elation. , pathological affects- of deep depression, mania, apathy, anxiety, hostility. They are moods that continues: emotions- of fear, anger, laughing, weeping sexual excitement, agonly, shame, humiliation embarrassment, temperament of individuals who are cheerful, vivacious, sanguine. Definition of emotion- an acutely disturbed affective process or state which originate in the psychological situation and which is reveled by marked bodily changes in smooth muscles, glands and gross behaviour. Emotion is a disturbance, a departure from normal state of composure. It tends to occur when our attempt to cope fails. Emotions are affective in that they are characteristically, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferently excited. Emotions differ ffrom simple feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness in that they originate in perception and memory rather than receptor stimulation.
