PSYB10H3 Lecture : PSYB10 - Lec 6 (near verbatim) - Emotions and Morality.docx

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4 Jun 2012

School

UTSC

Department

Psychology

Course

PSYB10H3

Professor

Elizabeth Page- Gould

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Morality: about decision-making in emotionally charged contexts. Has to be brief, arise and fall quickly; needs to have stimulus, and if person doesn"t think about it anymore, then emotion dies w/in about 4 min. 6 basic (maybe universal)emotions and we have complex emotions = combination of basic emotions (predominant theory of emotion but not ubiquitously accepted): Argued that these 6 basic emotions are the fundamental building blocks of everything that we experience as emotion, everything else is a combo. Complex emotions: blends of basic emotions, can put together fear. & sadness = dread: positive emotions = positively valenced emotions = happiness is a basic emotion that"s positive; gratitude, contentment, amusement and love. Gratitude = express appreciation to someone else; among the most commonly studied positive emotion b/c has such a profound impact on social relationships; improves everyday well-being, social relationships. Contentment = satisfaction w/ what you have in life; overall life satisfaction = live better life.

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19. As was presented in the textbook, modern emotion researchers assume that most emotions A) are determined primarily by physiological responses B) are determined primarily by cognitive responses C) are reflected in particular behavioral responses D) involve a combination of cognitive, physiological, and behavioral response patterns E) are exclusively culturally determined

19. As was presented in the textbook, modern emotion researchers assume that most emotions A) are determined primarily by physiological responses B) are determined primarily by cognitive responses C) are reflected in particular behavioral responses D) involve a combination of cognitive, physiological, and behavioral E) are exclusively culturally determined response patterns

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