PSYCH 3BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Aerobic Exercise, Eudaimonia
12 Mar 2014
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Pleasure principle: the demand that an instinctive need be gratified regardless of the consequences. A person"s immediate, physiological response to a stimulus. The emotion appraised after an event occurs whether pleasurable or painful: experience of autonomic arousal. Emotional responses come as one becomes aware of a painful or pleasurable experience. A mood is objectless, free floating, and long lasting. ". Involves the subjective evaluation of one"s current status in the world. Combination of positive affect and general life satisfaction. Researcher consistently found that physiological stress harmed the body, yet still added survival value to humans: evolutionary functions of fear and anger. Panas-x: 20-item scale used to quantify two dimensions off affect: negative (general distress) and positive valence (joviality, self-assurance, and attentiveness) Can we experience negative affect and positive affect at the same time? : are in fact independent and have different correlates, inversely correlated, relationships are weak and indicate independence.
