PSY 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Bowlby, Malnutrition, Metacognition
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Emotion: a rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation, which prepares you for action: emotions are triggered when you care about the outcomes. Emotions influence cognitive processing, social behavior, and physical health. Emotions energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals (i. e. , matters of personal importance). Functionalists don"t worry about what emotions are, but rather what they do, and the functions they play in our lives. In order to adapt well to the physical and social world, children must control their emotions through emotional self-regulation. Powerful emotions, such as anxiety, impair thinking and executive functions. Emotions can impact cognitive processing by diverting attention to task-irrelevant threatening stimuli. While emotions impact cognitive processes, cognitive processes also impact emotions: for example, planning helps to become less worried when a negative event happens. Emotional behaviors of one person affect the behaviors of others: for example, people try to comfort and help someone who is sad.
