Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emotion Classification, Dwarfism, Behaviorism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Sarah smits-bandstra

Document Summary

Emotions: rapid appraisal of personal significance of situations, prepares you for action, expresses your readiness to establish, maintain or change your relation to the environment on a matter of importance to you. Functionalist approach: the broad function of emotions is to energize behaviour aimed at attaining personal goals. Functions of emotions: cognitions, lead to learning essential for survival, can impair learning and memory (anxiety uses working memory, bidirectional (emotions shape how we think, how we interact with others, impact help, relate to other people) Amygdala and memory: amygdala: emotional processing, hippocampus: memory. 7 basic emotions: basic emotions: universal in humans and other primates and are theorized to have a long evolutionary history of promoting survival, happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, disgust. Infants earliest emotions are "attraction to pleasant stimuli" and "withdrawal from unpleasant stimuli" Self conscious emotions: higher order set of feelings, including shame, embarrassment, guilt, envy and pride.