PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Emotion Classification, Personal Fable
9 Dec 2014
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Social category, purpose in society, etc: developmental course of self-understanding, some people only achieve this after 20s, tied to cognitive development. The function of emotions: survival value, emotions help people adapt to their environment. Behaviours change in response to emotional state: pleasure reinforces behaviours we need to repeat to be fit and pain is the opposite, a good meal, sex, achieving complex tasks, etc. Experiencing and expressing emotions: basic emotions: joy, anger and surprise, measuring emotions, facial expressions are only one component. Smiling in both adults and babies accompany electrical activity in left frontal cortex. There are different variations in smiling, depending on the stimulus involved: age 5-6 months facial expressions become more predictable, development of basic emotions, newborns. Only pleasure and distress: 2-3 mos. Joy and social smiling, sadness: 4-6 mos. Stranger wariness comes with person permanence at age 6 mos: 8-9 mos. All basic emotions: development of complex emotions, self-conscious emotions that involve feelings of success and failure.
