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4-5 sleep cycles occur in a typical night's sleep.
Emotions
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A class of subjective feelings elicited by stimuli that have high significance to an
individual.
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Are valenced (?)
Emotional Forecasting
How accurate are we at predicting:
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Future emotional states?
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How long an emotion will last?
Impact Bias
The tendency to overestimate the duration of the emotional consequences of an event.
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Causes of impact bias:
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Understimate the power of our emotional setpoint.
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Good at predicting valence & intensity of emotional reactions.
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Bad at predicting how LONG these emotional reactions will last.
Emotional Homeostasis
Adaption-Level Principle: you adapt to a current situation so that it becomes normal or the "neutral level".
Changes from this neutral level produces an emotional response.
Common-Sense Theory of Emotion
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Common sense suggests that the perception of a stimulus elicits the emotion which then
causes bodily arousal.
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Sometimes we react physically before we're aware of what we're feeling.
James-Lange Theory of Emotion
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Perception of a stimulus causes bodily arousal which leads to emotion.
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- Fall '11
- Dodson
- Delta waves, Inference and Arousal, sleep- active brain, primary biological drives, Regulatory Drives
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