PSYC2241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sympathetic Nervous System, The Anatomy Of Dependence, Ifalik

• School: Boston College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC2241
• Professor: Andrea Heberlein

Document Summary

The bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and our feeling of the same change as they occur is the emotion . Emotion is just conscious awareness of all these changes, and these changes happen automatically. More modern an emotion is a universal, functional reaction to an external stimulus event temporarily integrating physiological, cognitive, phenomenological and behavioral channels to facilitate a fitness-enhancing, environment-shaping response to the current situation . Integrates things happening in your body, your mind, your subjective experience of the world (feelings), and how you express yourself. In contrast convenient category to discuss some interesting experiences that seem to us have something in common border between emotion and not- emotion is as arbitrary as border between art and not-art and music and not- music . How we define emotion depends on different elements of our culture;