PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Facial Expression, Emotion Classification, Amygdala
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1: cognition and/or perception related to a stimulus. Coming across dead animal on street --> stimulus + cognition is to stay away. 2: physiological changes (e. g. , neural activity, heart rate, hormonal changes) 4: motor expression (e. g. , facial expression, body posture) 5: action tendency (i. e. , desire to behave in a particular manner) Ex. w/draw from stimulus that avoided, ex dead animal: emotions arise from evaluations of a stimulus against our concerns. Series of reactions that arise from evaluations of a stimulus against concerns. React evoked consciously or unconsciously paying attention to something in even and how that scores against something concerned about (important not necessarily to worried) Emotion has to be personally-relevant, won"t feel anything that don"t care about: example. Example one --> younger child (usually 4) Don"t tend to feel happy --> evaluate taking cookie as being a moral transgression. Evaluates taking the cookie as unfair and wrong. Apologize to other child: emotion and cognition.
