PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Twin, Emotion Classification, Ambivalence
19 Feb 2014
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Emotions are useful because they help people adapt to their environments: fear leads to avoiding danger, happiness strengthens relationships, disgust keeps people away from things that make them ill. These are all examples of primary/basic emotions that are interpreted in the same way universally. Basic emotions: universal and consist of subjective feeling, physiological change, and overt behavior. Self-conscious (complex or secondary) emotions such as pride, guilt, embarrassment appear later: emerge in second year of life, learned in response to your culture or your environment, cultures differ in degree of emotional expression. By 4-6 months, infants can identify facial expressions associated with different emotions. Social referencing: in unfamiliar or ambiguous environment, infants look to parents for cues to interpret situation: we learn how to respond to situations and how to cope by looking to primary caregivers. During elementary school, children understand that people can have mixed feelings.
