A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Facial Expression, Endocrine System, Autonomic Nervous System
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Intro to psychology task 9 emotion. Feeling (or affect) states that involve a pattern of cognitive, psychological and behavioural reactions to events: always linked with motivation, you react only emotionally when our motives and goals are gratified, threatened, or frustrated. Emotion: relatively short, stimulus-elicited responses that are often quite intense (joy, anger, fear) Mood: rather less intense, more stable, trait-like states. Basic emotion model: all emotions are derived from a set of innate and universal emotions. Dimensional approach: emotions are not considered to be discrete and do not result from unique, independent neural systems, but rather from activity on two different dimensions: arousal: activation deactivation, valence: pleasant or unpleasant. Eliciting stimuli: trigger cognitive appraisals and emotional responses. Cognitive appraisals: the interpretations and meanings that we attach to sensory stimuli, both conscious and unconscious processes are involved in appraisals, component process model, results of appraisal yield a unique response for any given emotional event.
