PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Schadenfreude, Individual And Group Rights, Prefrontal Cortex
9 Dec 2013
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What is an emotion? a brief physiological and psychological response to an event that is felt subjectively and prepares a person for action. 6 basic emotions: fear, anger, disgust, sadness, happiness, surprise. Real emotions: between 500 ms - 4 s. An emotion can appear to persist if the emotional stimulus is presented repeatedly. Happiness, disgust, and sadness are standard length. Anger and fear last a little longer. Due to their time-course, these things are not emotions: E. g. , being in a good or bad mood. E. g. , he is a cheerful person. or she is an angry person. Moods are a generalized affective state, but they do not have the following criteria for an emotion: Stimulus-response: a mood is not always a response to an evocative stimulus. Time period: moods persist over time (i. e. , minutes, hours, days) Action tendencies: moods may not call for an action. Experience: moods are mostly subjective; they are not observable physiologically.
