PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Linear Model
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George mandler"s information theory approach to emotion (1962, 1975) 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 behaviours . Like schachter, mandler focuses on undifferentiated arousal . Human beings apparently have difficulty in discriminating slight changes in physiological patterns. it is determined by the meaning analysis that caused it given the individual"s values and environmental events. This arousal which decays relatively slowly, will potentiate subsequent feeling states . Discrepancy and interruption of ongoing plans and actions signals important changes in the environment and is the most important cause of the arousal. This arousal prepares the organism physiologically to respond to the evoking events.
