PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hypervigilance, Dazed, Thematic Apperception Test
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Emotion: arousal, behavior, and cognition: what happens when someone cuts you off on the road, expressive behavior: shouting, swearing, bodily arousal: heart beats faster, sweating, conscious experience: thoughts, labeling the experience. James-lange theory: body reacts before you experience the feeling: making faces: we adopt a certain face, it causes it to feel a certain emotion, emotion is our conscious awareness of our physiological responses to stimuli. Mirror neurons: you respond to authentic emotional reactions by reacting in the same way, may help you to empathize and understand others. Role of autonomic nervous system: physiological arousal during various emotions in orchestrated by the sympathetic system, triggering activity in various organs, pupils dilate, salivation decreases, skin perspires, respiration accelerates. Later, the parasympathetic system calms the body down. Joy, anger, interest, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear: these emotions are all present at birth. Detecting emotion in others: we read emotional content in eyes, we"(cid:396)e p(cid:396)i(cid:373)ed to detect (cid:374)egative e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s (cid:395)uickly.
