PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Microexpression

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Psyc 100 - lecture 6 - consciousness and awareness. Relatively short in duration and tend to have physiological manifestations (as opposed to feelings) Anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, contempt (added later) Micro expressions, brief facial expressions, occur when masking emotions as a result of genetics. Tested through mirror and shopping cart studies. Human children develop it around 16 months of age. Understanding that others have their own minds. Tested by the box and basket study and deceptions tasks. 2 steps to produce emotions: arousal (increased heartbeat, context (interpreting physiological responses based on environment)