PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Tunxis Community College, Barbara Fredrickson, Autonomic Nervous System
23 Nov 2020
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Emotions positive or negative feelings (affective states) consisting of a pattern of cognitive, physiological, and behavioural reactions to events that have relevance to important goals and motives. Concepts of motivation and emotion are closely linked. Both involve states of arousal, and both can trigger patterns or action. Signal that something important is happening, and shift attention to event. Fear or anger increase chance of survival by energizing, directing, and sustaining adaptive behaviors adaptive functions. Barbara fredrickson suggests positive and negative emotions have different. Negative emotions narrow attention and action tendencies so that an organism can respond to a threatening situation with a focused set of responses. Positive emotions broaden thinking and behaviour so that we explore, consider new ideas, try out new ways to achieve goals, etc. Emotions are a form of social communication by providing observable information about our internal states and intentions, emotions influence how other people behave towards us.
