PSYC 3405 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neocortex, Intellectualization, Amygdala
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What is an emotion: there are four components to emotion and each emphasises different aspects, emotions are a short lived, feeling arousal purposive expressive phenomenon that helps us adapt to opportunities and challenges in life, biological reaction, emotion is associated with bodily changes, increases heart beat, rise in blood pressure, dilation of the pupils, observable changes, blushing, sweating, distinctive facial expression, posture, subjective feeling, four components of emotion, feelings, bodily arousal. Emotion and motivation: emotions act as motivation in two ways, by energizing and directing behaviour, second emotions serve as an ongoing readout system to indicate how well or how poorly personal adaptation is going, sex example (positive emotion such as joy will increase sex, sex example (negative emotion such as disgust or pain will decrease sex, emotions energize, direct behaviour, emotions reflect motivational state, signal status of adaption (positive or negative, emotions act as motivators for action.
