PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Albus Dumbledore, Recognizable Set, Palpitations
8 Jan 2017
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Emotions--a ective responses (joy, sadness, pride, and anger) which are characterized by loosely linked changes in behaviour (how we act), subjective experience (how we feel), and physiology (how our bodies respond) We experience these emotions when we consider our situation to be relevant to our active personal goals. Some goals that make a situation meaningful are long-term concern, such as wanting to be liked. Other goals may be more eeting, such as hoping to get the last slice of cake or rooting for the underdog in a football match. Whatever the foal is, once we"ve evaluated a situation as being personally relevant, three types of changes are evident that, taken together, characterize emotion. We can identify similar changes in moods (a ective responses that are typically longer-lasting than emotions, and less likely to have a speci c object), but psychologists distinguish emotions from moods in several ways. Emotions typically have a clear object or target; moods do not.
