PSY494H1 Lecture Notes - Evolutionary Psychology, External Carotid Artery, Behaviorism
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Definition depends on who you ask, and for any psychologist, the definition reflects the particular interests of the psychologist and his/her"s methodological and theoretical predilections and the theoretical traditions and explanatory paradigms within which they work. Emotions who work in this perspective focus on the motional displays or. Also reflects whatever movement happens to be dominating psychology at the time expressions of humans and other animals. Most psychologists think of emotion s as being more then feelings. Jamesian: based on william james insistence that the experience of emotion is. Most psychologists would agree that subjective experiences, expressive reactions, primarily the experience of bodily changes. Cognitive: emphasizes the role of thought in the genesis of emotion and focuses on the way emotions follow from the way ind"s appraise events in the env. Appraisal refers to the process of judging the oersonal significance for good or ill of an event.
