HPS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thalamus, Cerebral Cortex, Fear
WEEK 3: Emotion and Motivation
What are emotions?
Psychological activation, response to environmental factor (stimulation), behaviour,
cognitive appraisal
Affect (feelings), behavioral, cognitive (thoughts)
Expressive (explicit reps of internal emotional state, signal what emotion we are feeling) and
instrumental (doing something about the emotion you are feeling) behaviours
Mood (longer term emotion) and affect (immediate emotion)
Primitive- cross cultures can still understand emotions, convergence, consistency even if
they are blind, innate emotions
Cultural display rules – norms of society change the expression of the emotion (modeling
and rewarding/repressing emotions)
Reason of emotions
Why do we have emotions?
Why do we smile when were happy?
Why do we wrinkle our noses in disgust?
Flight-fight-freeze response – helps us survive
Instinct-emotions
Drives innate drivers
Eat-pray-love
Jealousy- evolutionary – maximize our reproductive experience, manifest differently in each
sex
Men will be more sensitive to sexual infidelity, women more sensitive to emotional infidelity
It is still controllable, social psychology, we can still change and control these behaviours
Why would being and showing happiness help us survive
Emotion is physiologically adaptive (fear, surprise and disgust) wide, increase pupils can take
more light in, disgust so we don’t inhale things that could be dangerous
So others can know how we are feeling, both social and physiological
Disgust limit something that makes us sick but also signals to others that it might make them
sick too
Sadness, happiness, anger – no real physiological advantage, the anger is fighting and who
elicited anger stops, back off we are bigger and scarier, the smile is a I am not threatening to
you, sadness shows you are weak, pitiable
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Document Summary
Psychological activation, response to environmental factor (stimulation), behaviour, cognitive appraisal. Expressive (explicit reps of internal emotional state, signal what emotion we are feeling) and instrumental (doing something about the emotion you are feeling) behaviours. Mood (longer term emotion) and affect (immediate emotion) Primitive- cross cultures can still understand emotions, convergence, consistency even if they are blind, innate emotions. Cultural display rules norms of society change the expression of the emotion (modeling and rewarding/repressing emotions) Jealousy- evolutionary maximize our reproductive experience, manifest differently in each sex. Men will be more sensitive to sexual infidelity, women more sensitive to emotional infidelity. It is still controllable, social psychology, we can still change and control these behaviours. Why would being and showing happiness help us survive. Emotion is physiologically adaptive (fear, surprise and disgust) wide, increase pupils can take more light in, disgust so we don"t inhale things that could be dangerous. So others can know how we are feeling, both social and physiological.
