PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Episodic Memory, Trait Theory, Organic Reaction
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Affects, feelings, and emotions have complementary relations because each is embedded in the other and represent phases of emotional processes in given situations: part of different phases in which work around us. Our organic, personal, and social selves are always active in different situations. Emotional experiences represent phases in a process whereby organic, personal, and social aspects of the self become structured and self-sustaining for a period of time in a given situation either real or imagined. The potency of the organic reaction energizes the subject matter of the situation and focuses on particular details. This becomes a loop and is self-sustaining until the structure weakens and falls apart. Opponent processes: under what circumstances do emotions and feelings not transform but retain a unique quality: concept of actions vs. Attention is focused on the problem or goal at hand and inhibitory processes keep emotion from consolidating: concept of inhibiting emotions to concentrate and focus on the task at hand.
