CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
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Affective phenomena
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Preferences, Attitudes, Moods, Affective predispositions, Interpersonal stances, Aesthetic emotions, Utilitarian emotions
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Features of emotions
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- Reaction to stimulus / motivate us
- appraisal
- experience/expression component
- short duration
- we can regulate them
- adaptive
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Function of emotions
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Help us display the proper behavior in the situation
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What is emotion?
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a psych state that relates an event, a concern.
gives priority to one goal
gives urgency to a concern
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Darwin: The evolutionary theory
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- taxonomy
- where do they come from
- from our past, as a useful habit
- reflex like mechanisms
- argued for the universality
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William James: Bodily Approach
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first physiological changes, then emotion
emotions move us in bodily ways
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Freud: Psychoanalytic Approach
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- damaging events from past leave us w emotional scars
- agreed w Darwin (link to past)
- psychoanalysis
- relationships w parents in childhood
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Aristotle on emotions
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- Evaluative judgments of events in the world
- depend on what we believe
- we are responsible for our emotions bc we are resp. for our beliefs
- Katharsis
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Epicureanism
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- Epicurus
- Ideas about natural sociality
- right to pursuit happiness
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Stoicism
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- Stoa
- Living naturally and in harmony
- Chrysippus
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Rene Descartes
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- passions
- 6 basic emotions
- closely connected to our bodies
- cannot be fully controlled by thought
- agreed w/ Aristotle
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George Elliot
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- sympathies
- we expe our emotions diff than how ppl see them
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Magda Arnold
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- emotions are based on appraisals of events
- concern
- essentially rational
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Sylvian Tomkins
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- primary motivational system
- amplifiers of drives
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Ethology
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The study of animals & ppl in natural settings
