PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Electrodermal Activity, Sweat Gland, Vacuum Cleaner

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

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Emotions have several components sweat gland activity), brain wave activity, and so forth changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response (that is pleasant ones, influencing the behaviour of others, communicating needs or desires. Emotion: a motivational construct that is characterized by changes in affect, physiological responses, cognitions and overt behaviours. A theory of emotions specifying that specific emotions are biologically programmed, accompanied by distinct sets of bodily and facial cues, and discriminable from early in life. Ex. makes sense that its inborn because babies show emotions of disgust and distress. Each emotion is accompanied by a particular set of facial and bodily reactions. Interest: brows raised, mouth may be rounded, lips may be pursed. Fear: mouth retracted, brows level and drawn up and in, eyelids lifted. Disgust: tongue protruding, upper lip raised, nose wrinkled. Joy: bright eyes, cheeks lifted, mouth forms a smile. Sadness: corners of mouth turned down, inner portion of brows raised.