PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cardiovascular Disease, Common Cold, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Allows us to focus on attention and energize actions (cid:858)(cid:374)egati(cid:448)e e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s(cid:859)= pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)-solving. Helps us to understand what we need. Three parts: expressive behaviors, bodily arousal, conscious experiences. Emotion is a direct result of psychological responses to a stimulus. Criticism? (cid:862)(cid:449)e feel sorry (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e (cid:272)ry(cid:863) Bodily arousal and feeling happen at the same time, but are two separate pathways. One pathway: is to the sympathetic nervous system. Imagine if you feel your heartrate go up, you interpret that different in different environments. Psychical reactions and out thoughts together create emotions. Finding: context is important in experiencing emotion. Condition 1, walk over a low, stable bridge. Condition 2, walk over a high, unstable bridge. Both end of the bridges have a attractive women, who gave the men her number for questions. Condition 2 are more likely to ask her out later. Suggested that we need not always interpret our arousal, in order to process emotion.
