PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Facial Expression, Limbic System, Mirror Neuron
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Two traditions on how we understand emotions: organic tradition: feelings precedes the thoughts. Babies: do not have the ability to think yet but they recognize and respond to emotion. Purely sensory input can stimulate an emotion: immediate reaction to something that doesn"t even necessary happen to us. When anxious or feeling down so you change your thoughts. Does that mean your feelings have changed: she only said the second one for a split second, and never wrote it down. Emotion: is a state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, tendencies toward action, and all of the above are shaped by cultural rules. Primary emotions: emotions considered to be universal and biologically based. Secondary emotions: emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individual and cultures. Neuroscientist and researchers study three major biological aspects of emotion. Primary emotions associated with distinctive psychological patterns and facial expressions.
