PSY494H1 Lecture Notes - Infor, Vagueness, Polygraph
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William james important thinker in psych, he is a theorist not an empitracl researchers border of psych and philosophy, mainly interested in conciusness view of emotion is inlfuneced how he thinks of consciousness. We feel emotion, we know what emotions are. Reason is bc we feel it and therefore exists as a disnticnt mental construct. But how we know emotions exist by feeling. James thought conscious experience of emotion is feelings. What emotional experience is he claimed it was representation of bodily changes. We feel fear etc whatever want to lable it is combination of represenatations of bodily sensations. Direct perception then bodily change as a consequence and then emotional experience. Direct perception perceive objects perceived colour shape and abstract info of its emotional. Everyone of 3 components is vague and unexplained value. We see bear we run we scream and condequntly we fear we experience fear. We feel fear bc of sneation of bodily changes.
