PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Facial Recognition System, Sensory Cortex, Thalamus
31 Jul 2018
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Evolutionary approach: primary idea is that emotions develop due to adaptive value, emotion has 3 components, cognitive subjective experience, physiological bodily arousal, behavioural overt expression, historically this perspective was drawn upon, theories. Common sense: stimulus conscious feeling autonomic arousal. Janus/lange: stimulus autonomic arousal conscious feeling: cannon/bard: stimulus subcortical brain activity leads to both autonomic arousal and conscious feeling, schachter: stimulus autonomic arousal appraisal conscious feeling. Darwin and emotion: proposes we are born with innate emotions, basic emotional expressions are innate, produced and recognised automatically, pioneered research on facial expressions and emotion. Legacy: changed way emotions are conceptualised in western thinking, provided a framework for subsequent emotion research that is influential today. Facial feedback hypothesis: three components relate to each other not causal, facial expressions occur rapidly and automatically provide critical feedback that. Methodology of resear(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts as (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate ver(cid:271)ally: preferential looking preference determined by looking at something.
