PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Deductive Reasoning, Peekaboo, Egocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Zajonc, ledoux, richard lazarus: emotions without awareness/ cognition. Theory: some emotional reactions, especially fears, likes, and dislikes, develop in a (cid:498)low road(cid:499) through the brain, skipping conscious thought. In one study, people slowed an amygdala response to certain images without being aware of the image or their reaction. Big question: are there universal emotions? (everyone has the ability to feel. Paul ekman: yes happiness, sadness, disgust, surprise, anger, fear. Animals come out pretty much ready to live on their own vs. babies who come out needing someone to take care of them months old any knowledge or skills, we develop them overtime. Animals come out at an equivalent development level of a baby who is 21. Our delayed cortical development is precisely what enables us to acquire the. Indeed, the [research] makes clear that our early is actually quite a precarious adaptation for anyone trying to swallow safely (dye, 2010)