PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethology, Charlotte Selver, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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The challenge of this course: to understand how these three levels interact in emotional episodes. Emotions: happy-sad; fear-anger; interest-disgust, linked with each other and push back and forth, emotions are feelings filled with meaning related to the self in particular situations, emotions are related to the environment. Affects: founded on bodily states of pain - pleasure, relative arousal, bodily need or desires (e. g. , for food or sex) expressed as wishes (e. g. , it pains me to see you like this ), sort of vague, body level. You avoid mental emotions and don"t express them, they get expressed somewhere somatic symptoms (ulcers, etc) You can also have mental things caused by affects your body is hungry so your mind thinks of food. Natural kinds approach primary categories of emotion, such as fear, have a phylogenetic origin and are homologous across mammalian species. In animals, emotional responses reflect instinctual reactions to wired in situational cues.
