PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Melanocortin 4 Receptor, Brainstem, Blood Sugar
26 Feb 2016
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An emotion is a motivated state marked by a physiological arousal, expressive behaviour, and mental experience. Discrete emotions theory, humans experience a small number of distinct emotions, even if they combine in complex ways. Emotions have distinct biological roots and serve evolutionary functions. Motor program is a set of genetically influenced physiological responses that are essentially the same in all of us. The brain"s cortex, which plays a key role in thinking, evolved later than the limbic system, which plays a key role in emotion, our emotional reactions to situations precede our thoughts about them. People recognize and generate the same emotional expressions across cultures. Paul ekman and his colleagues concluded that a small number of primary emotions perhaps seven are cross-culturally universal: they found that the facial expressions associated with these emotions recognized across most, if not all cultures. Recent research suggests that pride may also be a primary emotion. Happiness tends to be the most easily recognized emotions.
