PSYC 2230- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 225 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: James Check

Document Summary

Ss and were less influenced by ptsd as their sensation seeking had a stress-buffering effect. Biological perspective of emotion: james-lange theory: prior to this, belief was: perception of stimulus development of emotion arousal of behaviour, james and lange independently proposed that: perception bodily changes emotion. Behaviour: changed state results when bodily changes occur, and this is the experience of emotion. Goal theory has differentiated three separate types of goals: Govern, 2013): when a behavior has its own source of energy, the ethological approach also assumes that each behavior has its own source of energy called action specific energy activation active information processing. Acute, short-lived stressors (on the order of minutes) produced immune system responses that were both adaptive and maladaptive. In particular, evolutionary psychologists are interested in evolved mechanisms that helped resolve specific adaptive problems concerned with either survival or reproduction.