PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Twin, American Babies, Emotion Classification
27 Jun 2017
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Thus, fear organizes our behavior around an important goal- avoiding danger: e. g. happiness is adaptive. When we are happy and smile with other people, it causes them to be happy as well and strengthens the relationship: e. g. disgust allows us to push a sour glass of milk away. Thus, according to functional approach most emotions developed over the human history to meet unique life challenges and help humans to survive. Such as increased activity in left frontal cortex when smiling/being happy. accurate barometer of infant"s emotional state. The findings make it reasonable to assume that facial expressions reflect an infant"s underlying emotional state. Infants and adults worldwide express emotion much the same way. A happy mom= smiling baby, a rough mom= a frowning baby: emotionally smiling has the same meaning for adults and for infants. )n (cid:498)joyful(cid:499) adult smiles, the muscles around the eye contract, which lifts the cheeks.
