PSYA02H3 Lecture : psych

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Autonomic nervous system: sympathetic nervous system, what you feel when you experience extreme emotions (increased heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, getting us ready to fight or flight. State of readiness: subjectively experience emotion, endocrine system, secretes hormones. James-lange theory: i. e. see a bear, sense danger, immobilize resources, you are scared, fear is an after effect of what has happened, stanley schachterer singer theory- 2 component theory, bear example. runner does not know what emotion he is feeling. the bodily sensations are common to all emotions. att ribute what sensation you have to the context of the situation you are in. Lie detection (polygraphy) assumes 3 things: liar knows that he/she is lying, liars efforts at deceptions are accompanied by emotional responses, emotional responses cause physiological reactions that cant be controlled, galvanic skin response.