PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Layer Cake, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Trait Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Psyc 2450 emotion, temperament and attachment: identify each of the primary emotions that infants display from birth to 7 months of age, and provide two associated facial characteristics of each. [on an exam students would only be asked about 1 or 2 primary emotions. ] Primary emotions are emotions present at birth or early in one"s first year of life. At birth, these emotions include interest, disgust, distress and contentment. The positive emotions, interest and contentment are characterized by raised brows and pursed lips, and grinning lips, respectively. In contrast, negative emotions consist of disgust, illustrated with a wrinkled nose and protruding tongue, and distress, modelled by big pupils and raised eyebrows. Between 2 and 7 months of age, anger, sadness, joy, surprise and fear emerge. Anger is associated with a squared mouth and drawn brows, fear corresponds with a retracted mouth and lifted eyelids, surprise is illustrated by a dropped jaw and raised eyebrows.