PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emotion Classification, Exaptation, Social Emotions
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Emotions have consistent patterns of expressions that are universal. Cognitive appraisal is important in producing emotion. Buteach emotion still has a unique bio-behavioural output. What goes into shaping the emotion is more complex than the biology. No predetermined behavioural, expressive, or bodily response that is specific to any one emotion. Automatic processes elicit specific bodily activations = specific emotional expression. Cognitive appraisal sets off specific bodily activations = specific emotional expression. Believe that certain emotions elicit specific expressions but they believe the way that these emotions are elicited depend on many contextualized things. Emotions are socially & cognitive constructed, thus emotional expression does not necessarily represent any one emotion. Criteria for emotions as natural kinds = basic. The produced feeling should be selected for, or evolutionarily adaptive. Must originate in subcortical (older) regions of the brain. Step 2: neuromotor affect programme sets in motion elements of emotion system. Hard to stop once in motion, involuntary.
