Emotion
What Emotion means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Relates to feelings, such as fear or happiness, and heightened emotional states can cause individuals to misinterpret neutral stimuli as threatening.
Mood and emotional state that alter what is noticed and how it is read, for example heightened threat detection when anxious.
Topics that use Emotion
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
- Perception (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Motivation
- Perceptual set
- Active construction of reality
- Ambiguity and illusory contours
- Ambiguity in perception
- Binocular depth perception
- Constructivist theory of perception
- Cues misapplied by the perceptual system
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