PSYCH 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ghrelin, Classical Conditioning, Thermostat

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1101
• Professor: David Pizarro

Document Summary

We regulate our emotional states! we use various strategies to regulate or manage our emotional states! humor and distraction are effective strategies for regulating negative affect, whereas rumination and thought suppression are not effective strategies for regulating negative affect! Facial expressions communicate emotion! expressions provide many clues about whether our behavior is pleasing to others! across cultures, there are some facial expressions that are universally recognized! Yerkes-dodson law: the psychological principle that performance increases with arousal up to an optimal point, after which it decreases with increasing arousal! a graph of this relationship is like an inverted u! Instead, they draw inferences about their motives according to what seems to make the most sense! Culture plays a role! culture determines what a person considers edible! researchers have found that infants have an innate preference for sweet tastes, but children can learn to like most foods; particularly those foods offered by family members!