PSY 1101 Midterm: Revision 7 Emotions (All you need to know for midterms)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

James-lange: (e. g. seeing someone with a gun heart starts to pound become aware of heart pounding experience fear emoion) Beter experience that emoion if we mimic another person"s facial expression. Diferent emoions evoked by the percepion of a physiological change, emoion does not cause the physiological change. We need a diferent physiological response for every emoion (simulus. Physiological changes more or less the same for each emoion. Physiological changes are slow, onset of the emoion is rapid. To experience emoion one must (1) be physically aroused; and (2) cogniively label the arousal. Focused on interplay of thinking (cogniion) and feeling (emoion), not the iming of emoions. Percepion of simulus simultaneous physiological change & cogniive naming of emoion conscious interpretaion of physiological change (emoion) possible ampliicaion of emoion. Thus: two aspects to an emoion: the cogniive naming of emoion & physiological change (oten intense arousal) Spillover efect: occurs when arousal from one event afects our response to other events.