PSY 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Autonomic Nervous System, Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala
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Emotion: an immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts. Has three components: a physiological process, a behavioral process, and a feeling that is based on cognitive appraisal of the situation and interpretation of bodily states. Feeling: subjective experience of the emotion, such as feeling scared, but not the emotion itself. Mood: diffuse, long-lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable object or trigger. Often people in good or bad moods don"t know why they feel the way they do. Primary emotions: emotions that are innate, evolutionarily adaptive, and universal (shared across cultures) Ex. remorse, guilt, submission, shame, love, bitterness, jealousy. This model plots emotions into two continuums: valence (how negative or positive they are) and arousal (how arousing they are) Arousal: describes physiological activation (such as increased brain activity) or increased autonomic responses (quickened heart rate, increased sweating, muscle tension, etc. ) Some emotional states contradict the circumplex model (ex.
