PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Molybdenum Disulfide, Facial Action Coding System, Emotional Expression
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We know that young infants show earlier signs of reasoning about mental states: interest in people, gaze following, 5-6mos: goal-directed action, 18mos: infer others" intentions, 18mos: infer others" desires. Fb understanding in infants <4years: 15 months, different tasks: choice vs looking time, problem is with choosing response and inhibiting own-knowledge response, implicit vs explicit understanding, but, clearly something is different at 4 years. Communicating feelings to others through facial expressions, gestures, and vocalizations. Primary emotions: develop early, seem to be universal, surprise, interest, joy, disgust, anger, sadness, fear. Secondary emotions: self-conscious thought to require some awareness of self, shame, guilt, embarrassment, pride, envy. Newborns likely have some basic emotions: positive vs negative. Most researchers believe that all emotions develop by 2 years, but lots of debate over when individual emotions come online! Theories: discrete emotions theory: emotions are innate and different from each other from very early on. Expression of emotions is influenced by social goals and context.
