PSYCH 3M03 Lecture Notes - Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Circadian Rhythm, Locus Coeruleus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3M03
• Professor: Aadil Merali Juma

Document Summary

Positive affect elicited by gains and success: show happiness is excitatory, duchene smile. Negative affect elicited by loss and failure: show sadness causes withdrawal, makes subdued, strategize and elicit change in behaviour (some adaptive value, mourning. More social animals have richer expression; same animals do not have the musculature to display certain emotion. Do not run as deep in evolution as fear, or rage. Posture erect vs. slumped: happiness goes further into body language than a smile eg/ erect posture, sadness slumped; subordination postures of self minimization. Activation energizes vs. slow: happiness people become giddy. Vocalization voice contours up or down: high pitched in reward, ancient root. Faps laughter vs. crying: crying. Continuously elicited in discomfort after birth: laughter. Smiles: emerges in early development, even in blind babies, in mother-infant interactions, many meanings in adulthood. Appeasement communicates that you mean no harm: genuine (felt) smile includes muscle around eyes.