emotion

• Emotions are typically responses to stimuli in theenvironment
• emotions generate action tendencies which are the urge to act in specific ways that are triggered like fear and flight
• emotions are the response to stimuli and last a shorter amount of time whereas mood is the baseline of the emotional system
• mood and emotion interact
• the emotional system as the instinctive pattern of automatic actions, reactions, and interactions that we have little control over
• the term emotion includes emotional response and emotional experience
• research shows a link between negative thinking and depression Evans in 2005 discovered that people who are depressed often show maladaptive thoughts
• and people with depression often show cogntive basies in the way they interept and remember stimuli
• attentional bias is A tendency for individuals to pay more attention to certain types of stimuli (e.g., threatening, emotional, or salient information) over others
• Interpretive Bias A tendency to interpret ambiguous situations or stimuli in a specific, often negative, way
• explicity memory bias is consciously recalling specific types of information, often influenced by emotional states or schema depressed person remembers more negative than positive events
• Implicit Memory Bias A bias in unconscious memory processes, where certain information (often emotionally charged) is more easily retrieved or affects behavior without conscious awareness.