PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Lev Vygotsky, Longitudinal Study, Psychophysiology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

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Emotion: a motivational construct that is characterized by changes in affect (or feelings), physiological responses, cognitions, and overt behaviour. Two theories of emotions and emotional development: discrete emotions theory. A theory of emotions specifying that specific emotions are biologically programmed, accompanied by distinct sets of bodily and facial cues, and discriminable from early in life. Has strong evolutionary undertones, tracing back to darwin (e. g. disgust) Argue that many basic human emotions are inborn products of our evolutionary history. Each discrete emotion is accompanied by a particular set of facial (and bodily) reactions and is apparent very early in life. Figure 4. 1: young infants display a variety of emotional expressions: functionalist perspective (on emotions) Believe that newborns and very young infants do not display discrete emotions. Their emotional lives may consist mainly of goal experiences of positivity (excitement) and negativity (distress)