PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sympathetic Nervous System, Fee Tail, Limbic System
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Entails arousal- responses of the sympathetic nervous system. Emotion: a state of mental and physiological feeling that directs our attention and guides our behavior. Motivation: a driving force that initiates and directs goal- directed behavior. Drive internal state activated by physiological imbalances. Homeostasis the body"s natural state, with goals, drives, and arousal in. The cannon- bard theory proposes that emotions and arousal occur at the same time. The james- lange theory proposes that emotion is the result of arousal. The schachter and singer"s two- factor model proposes that arousal and cognition combine to create emotion. The cannon- bard and james- lange theories of emotion. Cannon- bard theory: the experience of emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal, supported by the operation of the fast emotional pathway. Misattribution of arousal: the tendency to incorrectly label the source of the arousal one is experiencing. Excitation transfer: people already experiencing arousal from one event tend to also experience unrelated emotions more strongly.
