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<Planning> that has as a part some goal that is specified in terms of some behaviour and a time or place where the behaviour is to be enacted.
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A <mental disposition> towards repeated episodes of abnormally high levels of motivation to engage in a behaviour, acquired as a result of engaging in the behaviour, where the behaviour results in risk or occurrence of serious net harm.
Comment
While 'addiction' is a disposition relating to experience motivation to use a substance, 'substance dependence' refers to 'disposition related to the impaired functioning in the absence of a substance'.
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A <cognitive representation> of the emotional relevance of an object or event to the organism.
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Appraisals are a part of emotion processes, representing how a triggering stimulus is relevant to oneself. Appraisal captures the ‘aboutness’ of an emotion process.
For instance, a stimulus (the image of a tiger) can produce different emotion processes depending on how the relevance of this stimulus is evaluated. The image of a tiger on TV would not be evaluated as dangerous. However, the image of a tiger two meters away from a person would be relevant to a person in terms of its dangerousness. Therefore, the appraisal of the dangerousness of the tiger would be part of the emotion process 'fear'.
There is no intended sequence of the entities that are part of the emotion process (e.g., an appraisal does not necessarily precede a physiological process part of the emotion process).
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A <mental process> that has positive or negative valence.
Comment
Valence refers to the 'the subjective value of an event, object, person, or other entity in the life space of the individual' (https://dictionary.apa.org/valence). Valence ranges from negative to positive.
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