Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Carroll Izard, Paul Ekman, Emotional Expression
19 Dec 2018
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What are emotions: emotions: complex behaviors involving physiological, expressive, and experiential components produced in response to some external or internal event, serve to motivate and direct thoughts and actions. Serve to organize and regulate the child"s own behaviour: decide what to or not to do based on behaviour cues. Influence cognitive processes: ex. emotions and learning. Serve to initiate, maintain or terminate interaction with others. Measuring emotions: challenging because all three dimensions must be considered, physiological, expressive and cognitive, approaches, record physiological functions (ex. Theoretical perspectives on emotional development: biologically based vs. learned. Cognitive/socialization explanation: michael lewis and linda michelson, environmental events do not directly produce emotions, cognitive processes act as mediators mental events that bridge the gap bw environmental stimuli and the response. Instead the child relies on cognitive processes to assess the event, and social rules surrounding the event expressed: accounts for individual different in emotional reactions.
