PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Dementia, Aerobic Exercise, Physical Attractiveness
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Mindfulness meditation involves moment to moment attention to sensations, thoughts, sounds, emotions, breathing, etc. in a nonjudgmental manner. Increases conscious awareness of our own negative thoughts, emotions, stressful states and stress triggers. Mindfulness practice activates prefrontal areas and reduces stress. Aerobic exercise triggers certain genes to produce proteins which guard again more than. Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, cognitive decline and dementia and early death. Happiness is generally not related to: age, gender (women are more often depressed, but also more often joyful, parenthood, physical attractiveness. Affective style refers to persistent individual differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation. Affective style is plastic, you can change your style with things such as mindfulness practice, it has been proven. Emotions are triggered, short lived psychological states consisting of: physiological changes (typically arousal, subjective experiences or feelings (anger fear, characteristic behavioral responses (facial expressions)
