PSYC1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Frontal Lobe, Pleasure
PSYC 1005: Emotions and Learning (Week 3):
Emotions:
→ General Definition:
o Izard (2016) - Emotions consist of neural circuits (that are at least partially
dedicated), response systems, and a feeling state/process that motivates and
organizes cognition and action
• Also provides info to the person experiencing it, may include antecedent
cognitive appraisals and ongoing cognition (including an interpretation of its
feeling state , expressions or social-communicative signals, and may
motivate approach or avoidant behaviour, exercise control/regulation of
responses and be social/relational in nature
Neural networks:
Stimulus
Brain Activity
Body Physical Activity
Action/Reaction
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Kepes Defiitio:
→ A liitless aa of eotios
Ekas Defiitio:
→ Basic Emotions: Anger, Fear, Disgust, Sadness and Happiness (Ekman, 1992)
→ Universal
→ Facial Expressions
→ Extended list:
o Amusement, Contempt, Contentment, Embarrassment, Excitement
o Guilt, Pride in achievement, Relief, Satisfaction, Sensory Pleasure, Shame
→ Controversial
→ Mediatizatio of his pespetie lie to e
→ Paul Ekman Group advises many Governmental organizations (especially in US) on:
o Micro expressions
• Very brief facial expressions, lasting only a fraction of a second
• They occur when a person either deliberately or unconsciously conceals a
feeling
Daasios Definition:
→ Daasios pespetie
o Emotions are a physiological phenomenon
o Emotions and feelings are different
• feeligs ae etal epeiees of od states
• [Go back to first diagram] – according to Damasio, brain activity and body
physical activity are emotions whereas action/reaction are feelings
→ Autonomic-motoric-cognitive response (Kemper, 1987)
Emotions Feelings
o Emotions are of the body, while feelings are of the mind
o A feeling is a mental representation of the state of the body
o Emotions are automatic. Feelings are conditioned
o Emotions are reactions to external stimuli
Feldman-Baetts Defiitio:
→ Most people iludig a sietists eliee that eotios ae distit, loatale etities
inside us- but they are not. Searching for emotions in this form is as misguided as looking for
cerebral clarinets and ooes – Feldman Barrett (2006)
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Document Summary
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