PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tachycardia, Emotional Expression, Heart Rate
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Emotional development: what are emotions, transient states, you do not always feel fear, correspond to distinct internal feelings, i"m scared now! , correspond to cognitive processes, yikes! , correspond to physiological processes. Person"s report of how they are feelings. Rate how often you have felt this way today from. Proud: why do we have emotions, functional approach. Emotions help us to meet our goals. (1) mobilize and coordinate our response systems. (2) communicate our needs to others and shape interpersonal behaviours of others. Being stressed for a class will motivate you to study. Sadness after something will allow you to reflect: feeling your feelings: emotional experience, facial expressions, coding facial expressions. Levenson and gross had 100s of undergraduates watch movie clips and rate their emotions when they watched. Based on this, identified clips that induced strong emotions. Adults don"t really reliably make the corresponding facial expressions to evocative movie clips.