PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Trait Theory, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Transitory- in other words; it comes and goes. Sadness is an emotion but depression is not because it is a longer state. Has valence- good or bad, you cannot have a neutral emotion. Needs cognitive appraisal- we think about the emotion and label it. Alters thoughts- changes the way we think about the world around us. Creates an action tendency- motivates us to do something (good or bad) They happen to you- feels as if it just happens you don"t constantly choose a particular emotion. When you experience an emotion, then you can think about it and identify strategies to help alter the emotion. The james-lange theory: proposes that the pattern of arousal that we experience is different for each emotion. One must monitor the experience that i am having and it will tell me what emotion i am having. Schachter-singer theory: all emotions trigger a response but that response is just general.
