PSYC18H3 Midterm: Lecture Notes from the first day of class up until the midterm 2011
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To be more emotional when we feel like holding it in. Some people tend to be more expressive or reserved with their emotions. Understanding means that when you talk to someone about your problem where they have experience of going through what you are going through. Give you a framework of which you can understand your own situation. Expressive system and vesteral systems have a kind of relationship- if your not showing it on your face your burning inside if your showing it on your face your not burning inside. Goal of clinical psychologist is to help you come to terms with the feelings that you put and hide away. First major challenge: to understand emotion as a distinctive experience while at the same time trying to understand how it interacts with cognitive and bodily processes. Umwelt- organic and physical world ( the world around) Existential concept of thrownness- we are thrown as if by accident into particular worlds.
