PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Parenting Styles, Longitudinal Study
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Term paper due next tuesday; don"t need to submit on peer scholar. We have basic emotions and more complicated emotions. Basic: happiness, surprised, sadness, fear, disgust, anger. Complex: as we get older: gratitude, pride, hangriness . Internal feelings: subjective, internal, hard to de ne. Motivation: some desire to take action because of this emotion. Cognition: certain thoughts that accompany these feelings. An individual"s attempt to understand, maintain, or change their environment. And discrete from one another since very early (it"s not just a general positive or negative; but distinct emotions) We can identify facial expressions for basic emotions pretty early in life. Separating the emotions into discrete individual emotions: other theories: think of emotion in simplistic ways: positive vs negative, high arousal vs low arousal, functional perspective. Emotions are there for a reason (function): to promote action to achieve a goal. #1: ie, goal: run away from tiger; emotion: feeling fear.
