PSY331H1 Final: First Half Study Notes
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Functions: social groups, relationship priorities, relationship to environment, signals states to others. Moods: last for a long time and are not attached to specific cause (more diffuse) Emotions: reactions to an external stimulus (specific event) Internal phenomena that can make themselves observable through expression and behaviour. Accessible and able to articulate (how people are feeling) Physiological reactions and feedback from peripheral nervous system. Does not require consciousness, test heart rate, muscle movement, etc. Collection of cognitive evaluation and labeling processes. Self reports of evaluation, attribution, and judgment. Component process: emotions as episodic, relatively short-term, biologically-based patterns of perception, experience, physiology, action, and communication that occur in response to specific physical and social challenges. Subjective feelings, expressive motor behaviour, cognitive appraisal, physiological arousal, action ready. Social norms can dictate expression of certain emotions. Some bold researchers say emotions are more like prototypes; disgust, surprise, etc. don"t count. Theories: testable statements about the causes, processes, order, and interaction of emotions.
