PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Executive Functions, David Buss
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Emotion is the first language: differential emotions theory: discrete or basic emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear as. Natural kinds, based on hardwired systems that mature during development on a kind of developmental timetable. Every basic emotion has a set of neural, expressive, and feeling components that occur automatically and nonconsciously in response to specific events. The response pattern that is generated by each emotion is rather restricted and stereotypical, but it can be modified via information processing mechanisms. Emotional development is due to maturation and particular types of interaction that lead to distinct emotions: differentiation theory: infants start out with two basic emotion states of negativity/distress and positivity/pleasure. More differentiated emotions emerge later during development, perhaps as a result of changes in hedonic tone and general arousal. The mechanism through which specific emotional states come to exist involves biological maturation and interactive experiences with one"s environment.
