PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nonverbal Communication, The Roots, Intentionality
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Learning objectives: developing the roots of sociability. Infants display facial expressions indicative of their emotional states: basic expressions are remarkably similar across the most diverse cultures. Clues of other emotions emerge: kinds and degree of emotions expressed vary, mirrors darwin"s earlier findings. Important nonverbal communication tool used in everyday social interactions: write down four emotions. Developmentalists believe that true emotions have three components: Behavioral components: nonverbal expressions of infants represent actual emotional experiences. Emotional expressions may not only reflect emotional experiences, but may also help regulate the emotion itself. If displays are innate, facial expressions may occur without accompanying cognitive referents -- reflexive. Expressions may help to regulate emotion as basic expressions are modified and better controlled with age -- adaptive: when young feelings and hearts meet , advances in infants" emotional life are made possible by increasing sophistication of brain.
