PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Information Theory, Feeling, Automaticity
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Emotion becomes very cognitive after the 60s; behaviourism = trust what you do, being governed by stimulus. This approach emphasized the active role played by people in interpreting and understanding the world around them. His information processing approach to emotion places an emphasis on the role of. Meaning analysis and cognitive evaluation that deals both with events in the external world and with the organism"s own actions and behaviors . Mandler proposed similar theory as schachter did but schachter is motivational. Mandler = more cognitive > interpretation (which is good or bad for me; appraisal). We are constructing our own worlds and are making our own decisions. We"re not being governed by the stimulus, we are appraising it in an active way and making decisions for what we should do. Information theory tradition becomes salient in 1960s about choice behaviour people make. (e. g. netflix what movies do you like) Like schachter, mandler focuses on undifferentiated arousal.
