Psychology 2040A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Carroll Izard, Paul Ekman, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J Bruce Morton

Document Summary

moods = more enduring emotional states, may help us understand the child"s personality attributes such as the tendency to be shy, dependent or aggressive. Measuring emotions since emotions are complex, measuring them becomes an important issue for researches because all three dimensions (physiological, expressive and cognitive) must be considered. One approach --> record changes in physiological fxns (heart rate, acceleration or deceleration) newer technologies (pet, fmri) are also being used to tract the activities of the brain as emotions are being experienced. - biologically based explanations -- (paul ekman and carroll izard) Ekman concluded that there are universal facial expressions for certain basic emotions that are interpreted in similar ways across cultures shows photos of 6 faces, each depicting a particular emotions happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust. Found a big degree of accuracy across cultures as to which emotions were represented individuals from a wide variety of cultures correctly recognize fundamental emotions, showing the highest degree for happiness.