PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peripheral Nervous System, Central Nervous System, Frontal Lobe
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What is an emotion: a brief physiological and psychological response to an event or a stimulus. What is not an emotion: due to their time-course, these things are not emotions. Moods (e. g. , being in a good or bad mood) An emotional experience that persists greater than just a few minutes. Do not have the following criteria for an emotion: stimulus response. Moods are not always a response to an obvious stimulus: time period. Moods may persist over time (e. g. , minutes, hours, days: action tendencies. Moods may not call for an action: experience. Moods are mostly subjective, and not physiologically observable. Affective personality traits (e. g. , he is a cheerful person ) Using an emotion word to describe people at a personality level. The 6 basic emotions: there is a predominance of negative emotions in the list because they make us most fit to survive, there may be greater functionality for negative emotions than positive emotions.
