PSY 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Frontal Lobe
23 Mar 2017
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Introduction to emotion: expressing emotion, stress and illness, health and coping. Emotion: arousal, behavior, and cognition (response of the whole body and mind) Emotions: more intense feelings in response to specific situation at someone or something, only last few min or seconds, facial expressions. Mood: less intense, typically lack a certain trigger, last longer than emotions: emotional components. Experience of emotion involves awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli-heart beats first and then label with an emotion: cannon-bard theory: arousal and emotion happen at the same time. Emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion: schachter and singer two-factor theory: arousal + label = emotion. Emotions have two ingredients: physical arousal and cognitive appraisal. Emotional experience requires a conscious interpretation of arousal. Spillover effect-arousal from one event can influence their response, when someone was really happy or really mad: zajonc and ledoux: emotion and the two-track brain.
