PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Achieved Status, Ascribed Status, Cortisol
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Immediate response to environmental events or internal thoughts: emotion triangle. Thoughts: what can i buy feelings/ psychological response, heart rate raises, behaviors, jump up and down, mood. Long lasting emotional state: cause is difficult to identify, primary emotions. If you damage this you could fear everything or fear nothing: processes emotional significance of stimuli and generates emotional/ behavioral reactions, interpretation of facial expressions, theories of emotion. James lange theory: event psychological emotion, facial expressions should inform emotions, smiling actually makes us happier, cannon bard theory. Schachter singer two factor theory: misattribution of arousal, it doesn"t automatically lead to a physical response, you have to label it, why do we have emotions, decision making, have a bigger effect on our decisions then our brain. Somatic markers: reaction based on something you do, communication, facial expressions. Strengthen interpersonal relations: guilt, motivation, what is motivation. Sex: hypothalamus, hormones, testosterone, availability drives male sexual behavior, quantity drives female sexual behavior.
