emotions

emotions

1. introduction

   • emotion: response of whole organism
     • bodily arousal: sweat
     • expressive behavior: yelling
     • conscious experience: thoughts

2. theories of emotion "chicken &egg"

   • james-lange: arousal them emotion
   • cannon-bard: arousal with emotion
   • singer-schachter /two-factor: body plus thoughts
     • spillover effect: when arousal is affected by people
   • Zajonc, LeDoux: arousal+cognitive label=emotion
   • Lazarus: appraisal without awareness

3. embodied emotion: role of autonomic nervous system

   • sympathetic (arousing division) nervous system: triggers activity & change organ
   • parasympathetic (calming division)
   • +ive: left frontal lobe -ive: right hemisphere

4. emotional expression

   • dimensions of emotions pg:476
   • Anger/ catharsis: emotional release
   • happiness/ feel-good, do-good phenomenon: ppl tend 2 b helpful when n gd mood

5. stress:process of appraising & responding to challenging events

   • stressor: event
     • catastrophes: sudden large-scale event
     • significant life change
     • chronic daily hassles: daily tasks
     • low social status/power
   • appraisal:deciding smthng stressor/ stress reaction: response
   • response system
     • phase1 alarm reaction
       • phase 2 resistance
         • phase 2 exhaustion