PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Cortisol, Sympathetic Nervous System, Psychoneuroimmunology
3 Sep 2013
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A state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action. Emotions that are considered to be universal and biologically based. They include fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, contempt, and disgust. The process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed. Brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes others carrying out an action; they are involved in empathy, imitation, and reading emotions. In human beings, mirror neurons enable us to identify what others are feeling, understand other peoples intentions, and imitate their feelings or actions. Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person may express (or suppress) emotions. Expression of an emotion, often because of a role requirement, that a person does not really feel. According to hans seyle, a series of physiological reactions to stress occurring in three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
