lecture 19: Flashcards
what are emotions
- specific signalling system
- difficult to define due to complexity
- response to a specific event and relativley short-lived
working definition of emotions
a heritable set of adaptive mechanisms that function systematically to inform, motivate, and organise an organism’s responses tot he perception of a change in goal-environment relationships
five key components of emotions
- physiology
- phenemenology (experience)
- expression
- cognitions
- behaviour
evaluation process
- stimulus or event
- appraisal - evaluation of meaning
- emotional response
how do emotions change across lifespan
- babies exhibit emotion
- babies are highly attuned to emotions around them
- emotional repertoire increases
- separating emotions and behaviour becomes easier
how do emotions change across cultures
- expression of emotions is very similar cross-culturally
- variation in what emotions are valued
difference between emotion and emotion regulation
- the way individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, how they experience them.
way that aspects of emotions a re regulated
- situation reappraisal
- situation selection
- distraction
- suppression
- avoidance of substances
- disclosure
- mindfulness
how are emotions linked to health outcomes
disease initiation
- primary causatinve and preventative
- secondary causative and preventative
disease progression
- medical contact, detection and screening behaviour
- symptom attention, sensitivity and reporting
treatment
- adherence
- decision making
emotions and primary causative and preventative
- negative: poorer outcomes in health (e.g heart disease linked to anger and axiety)
- positive: quicker physiological recovery, lower mortality, better cancer results (linked to happiness and pride)
- regulation: poor regulation can impact CVD outcomes
emotions and secondary causative and preventative
- negative emotions predict poorer health behaviours and vice versa
- positive health behaviour also predict positive emotions
emotions and medical contact, detection and screening behaviour
- negative emotions linked to whether people to seek help but this depends on what the emotions are about
emotions and symptom attention, sensitivity and reporting
- negative emotions make us more aware of symptoms especially for non-specific symptoms
- positive emotion associated with fewer aches and pains
- can be bidrectional
emotions and adherence
- what the emotions are directed towards impacts adherence. what is causing the emotion
emotions and decision making
- embarrassment predicts treatment avoidance
- emotions can impact decisions especially under stress
