PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intersubjectivity, Social Emotions, 18 Months
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Slide 3: ability to respond to others is crucial. The fundamental and social developments need to be nurtured, it is the idea of nature and nurture and cultural processes. An emotion is a complex process, a feeling state produced by the distinctive physiological responses and cognitive evaluations of situational contexts that motivate action. 3 feeling-state: subjective, physical, overt behaviour (how we feel internally), situational (fear under threat) Slide 4: infants" facial expressions are most reliable cues to determine emotions, go off of facial expressions and infer from there on what they"re feeling. Gradual differentiation suggests that emotions express happiness or sadness that gradually emerges from emotional states to (fear, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise). Differential emotions theory infants" basic facial expressions will always remain, even in adulthood. Emotions as ontogenetic adaptations (genetic emotions) emotions evolve because they contribute to emotions survival, this affects their interactions with caregivers.