Part 13

1. PART 13
1 COGNITION AND EMOTION
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Psychology, Twelfth Edition (Myers, D. G.)
2 EMBODIED EMOTION
3 EXPRESSED EMOTION
4 STRESS AND HEALTH
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2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Differentiate between bodily arousal, expressive behavior, and
conscious experience when referencing human emotion
• Discuss how different emotions activate different physiological
and brain pattern responses
• Discuss what effect stress has on the human body
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How do arousal and expressive behaviors interact in emotion?1:
Humans– and most other animals— appear to be equipped with a set
of predictable responses to situations called emotions:
• emotions: are a mix of bodily arousal (heart
pounding); expressive behaviors (quickened pace),
and conscious experience, including thoughts
(“Will I get hurt?”) and feelings (panic, fear, joy)
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Do different emotions activate different physiological and brain-
pattern responses?
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There are subtle brain pattern distinctions for
some emotions.
• Although these subtle differences exist
in brain activity, such differences
cannot be easily seen from tracking
heart rate, breathing, and perspiration.
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EXPRESSED EMOTION
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
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How do we communicate nonverbally?3:
Most humans read nonverbal cues well using their
brain’s emotion-detecting skills; individuals are
especially good at detecting nonverbal threats.
• Experience can sensitize individuals to
particular emotions (e.g. abused
children shown morphed anger/fear
photos).
• Gestures, facial expressions, and voice
tones convey important information.
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STRESS AND HEALTH
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10. STRESS AND ILLNESS4PART13:EMOTION,STRESS,&HEALTH
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How does stress make us more vulnerable to disease?4:
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Hypertension and headaches are two forms of psychophysiological
illnesses.
• psychoneuroimmunology: “mind body
illness”
• Your thoughts and feelings (psycho)
influence your brain (neuro), which
influence the endocrine hor-
mones that affect one’s disease-
fighting immune system.
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