PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gordon Allport, Authoritarian Personality, Appraisal Theory
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Prejudice and discrimination not only involve strong feelings and emotions but also involve cool, unemotional assumptions regarding negatively regarded groups jobs, educational opportunities. However emotions include irritation, disgust, resentment, enragement. Affect: consists of two dimensions valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (energized/passive). Affect fluctuates in response to the external environment positive or negative as well as physiological states. (russel) affect is a neurophysiological state that is consciously accessible as a simple, non-reflective feeling that is an integral blend of hedonic (pleasure-displeasure) and arousal (sleep-activated) Mood: an affective state that is long lasting with positive and negative mood dimensions. Emotional episode: subjectively experience and timed combines cognitions (beliefs, interpretations) and behaviors (fleeing and facial behavior) Appraisal theory of emotion: emotions that are generated on events or objects that impinge on the self. Appraisals are both conscious and non-conscious that interpret events and objects.
