Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conflicting Emotions, Pragmatics, Wrinkle

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Sam Goldmsith

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Emotion is: an instinctive state of mind or feeling in response to some external or internal event . The functions of emotions: direct influence on behaviour, direct influence on cognition and learning, huge direct influence on social functioning: Measuring emotions: self-report of cognitive appraisals, physiological measures of arousal. Hr, respiration, perspiration: observational measures of behaviour. Facial affect and body language coding systems. Naturalistic or systematic observation: theoretical perspectives: Six basic emotions that are interpreted or decoded universally a. i. Sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust and surprise a. ii. Confirmed by meta-analysis of 97 studies from wide range of cultures (2002: carrol izard- discrete emotions theory. Basic emotions are expresses universally and by very young infants: basic emotions are innate and adaptive, sadness: comfort from caregiver, joy: more ids from caregiver, disgust: caregiver removes substance, paul ekman & carrol izard: Humans possess basic emotions that are : interpreted and expressed universally, expressed universally, evident in very early infancy, adaptive and functional.