CHYS 3P12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Multiple Choice, Pupillary Response
15 May 2018
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CHYS 3P12 Lecture 5
Midterm Test – What to expect?
• Textbook material and lecture notes will be on the midterm
• True/false
• Pair and matching
• Multiple choice
• Long question – pick 1 out of 2
Lisa Feldman Barrett – How emotions are made (2017)
• Emotions are not distinct, locatable entities inside us with an identifiable fingerprint (brain or
neural entities, facial patterns, bodily patterns) - we need to abandon such essentialism
• Emotions & degeneracy
o Variation in emotional response is referred to as degeneracy – the same outcome can
be produced in multiple ways
Audio Video:
• Are emotions aren't that higher wired than we thought it would be
• The way we think about emotions may essentially be wrong
• EVERYONE HAS ROOM FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF EMOTIONS; ANGER, FEAR, HAPPINESS ETC.
o Your body takes a distinct pattern and that you have a specific feeling with goes with
that bodily state and you react in a certain way.
o Its like a fingerprint that can distinguish the emotions you are displaying
o Ex. People smile when their sad
o When it comes to fear, the whole population that your brain is capable of making
depending on the situation you're in
o Infants need to learn how to proceed emotions in an adult way
o Emotions are made by us and they constrain of different networks that are common to
making emotions, thoughts, memories and decisions
o These networks wire during development in an infant
o Your brain is not reacting to the world, it is structure to predict not to react
▪ It is constantly predicting what is going to happen next
▪ Your brain is predicting every single word that is coming out of someone's
mouth – using pasts experiences to predict things
▪ Your brain is trying to use sensation in order to understand and trying to make
sense of things
▪ For example, when you loose someone close to you, it seems like you loose a
part of you which is true. Symptoms of emotions would be sickness of fatigue
o Implications: because we are using the wrong sorts of medications, we are now loosing
people and their lives because of this
The importance of temperament (nature) and attachment (environment) in shaping emotional
development
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• Temperament: genetic influence
• Genotype – full heredity information – genes
• Phenotype – observable physical expression or characteristics of the genes
• Things to consider regarding attachment and temperament:
• INTEREACTION BETWEEN GENES AND ENVIRONMENT
• Biology (genes) does not equal destiny
• Genetics: The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics
• Epigenetics: the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather
than alteration of the genetic code itself
• G- Genotype
• E – Nonshared Environment
• E - Common/Shared Environment
• H - Source of genetic influence on the phenotype
• MZ – monozygotic
• Siblings - Dyzygotic/Fraternal/Full sibs
• Unrelated Sibs
Shared environmental effects (e):
• Refer to environment factors that are shaped by reared-together ribs (e.g. parenting practices,
parental income) and are thus a source of their phenotypic similarity.
Nonshared environmental effects (E):
• Refers to environment factors that are not shared by reared together relatives (e.g. peer group,
accidents) and are thus a source of their phenotypic differences
• H2- the classic symbol for heritability (i.e variability accounted for by genetics)
• r expectation (phenotypic resemblance)
• .65 = h2 + e2 (monozygotic)
• .41 = 1/2 h2 + c2 (sibs)
• .16 = e2 (unrelated)
Re Environmental Influence:
• Prolonged stress during pregnancy associated with low birth weight, hyperactivity, irritability,
irregular sleeping, eating, and bowel habits
• It is postnatal, physical, or social?
• Are there maternal and/or paternal effects?
• Are there siblings interaction effects?
• Are there gender effects?
Re genetic influence:
• What kind of gene action is involved?
• Is there sex-limitation or sex-linkage
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Document Summary
Midterm test what to expect: textbook material and lecture notes will be on the midterm, true/false, pair and matching, multiple choice. Long question pick 1 out of 2. Its like a fingerprint that can distinguish the emotions you are displaying: ex. People smile when their sad: when it comes to fear, the whole population that your brain is capable of making depending on the situation you"re in. Symptoms of emotions would be sickness of fatigue. Implications: because we are using the wrong sorts of medications, we are now loosing people and their lives because of this. Shared environmental effects (e): refer to environment factors that are shaped by reared-together ribs (e. g. parenting practices, parental income) and are thus a source of their phenotypic similarity. Re environmental influence: prolonged stress during pregnancy associated with low birth weight, hyperactivity, irritability, irregular sleeping, eating, and bowel habits. Is there sex-limitation or sex-linkage: are chromosomal effects involved.
