PSYCH 5681 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tegmentum, Conflict Escalation, Developmental Psychopathology
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Volitional: my dad just died, i will go do _ and then _ Automatic: dad just died, go to funeral, get back to work and get on with it: such shaping of emotions can occur through several mechanisms (see aldao, 2010, attentional, cognitive, social, behavioral. Important: emotion regulation need not be volitional (e. g. , cole et al. , According to the functionalist perspective (emotions serve functions), regulated emotions serve to initiate, sustain, alter, or terminate relations between a person and his or her environment on issues of importance to the person (campos et al. , 1994) Important: effective emotion regulation is sometimes inferred from positive behavioral functioning in the face of environmental challenge. This is problematic scientifically. (see cole et al. , 2004). In science, we prove something by observing it and proving that others can observe it too; objective and reliable. We can"t do that with this, so we look for emotional dysregualtio(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s easier to tell (cid:449)hat"s (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g.