Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Stationary Bicycle, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Reticular Formation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Reticular activating system: ras, activates cortex, 1) collateral sensory information. Tourangeau and ellsworth: highly aroused subject show little expressiveness, supports freud, freud was probably wrong, freud was mostly talking about aggression and how if you express aggression it might reduce it. The more you express emotion from your face the more you feel it. Emotion-provoking events (lion jumps are you) > perception (danger) > perception of emotion (fear) > bodily arousal. Emotion-provoking events (lion jumps are you) > perception (danger) > bodily arousal > perception of emotion (fear) Arousal needs to be there for you to experience emotion: facial feedback: izzard. Changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion. Number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion: laird (facial feedback) You end up feeling the emotion of the facial expression you were told to do. Stimuli seen as funnier in smile group; as soon as someone is smiling the feel better: laird, strack et.