PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Botulinum Toxin, Amygdala, Mental Rotation
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Emotions are expressed through: posture, vocal, touch, face. Differentiating models of emotion: basic emotions theory: Emotions have consistent patterns of expressions that are universal. Automatic process elicit specific bodily activations = specific emotional expressions. The produced feeling should be selected for, or evolutionarily adaptive. Must originate in subcortical (older) regions of the brain. How basic emotions operate: automatic appraisal mechanism detects elicitors. Fast and unconscious: neuromotor affect programme sets in motion elements of emotion system. Hard to stop once in motion, involuntary. Physiological functionality that"s adaptive and useful for survival. Cultures from all around the world are able to identify the 6 basic emotions. The two-stage model of evolved emotional expression: adaptation a feature that evolves due to process of natural selection. Expression as a component of adaptive emotional response: exaptation a process in which this feature requires a function that was not acquired through natural selection. Communicative function: ritualization the process by which a trait or feature becomes exaggerated.
