PSY 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sympathetic Nervous System, Cardiac Output, Heart Rate
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Emotions taking you over: defining and describing emotions. Caught up in sorrow, lost in the song: how emotions function in our lives and paint our experiences. Good night, good night: mindfulness and easing the mind. Emotions: many themes of class so far: E. g. , telling yourself (or someone else) to calm down. Signals that something is at stake: motivate toward good/away from bad. Sympathetic nervous system arousal (sam axis, hpa axis) Essentially simultaneous and informing one another: often not totally conscious of these processes (we"re reacting) Humans are highly social species: hunt prey. Raise offspring (human infants are useless) need others to survive!! Imagine (and prepare) for all the ways that things could go wrong. Form of dissonance = disconnect between identity and emotion. But loses his temper during a board game. Dissonance in itself is also considered emotion (or complex combination of emotions: negative experience. Regret, shame, or guilt: motivate attitude or behavior change.
