PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Twin, Emotion Classification
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Why do emotions exist: emotional are functional and adaptive. Positive emotional experiences such as pleasure, happiness, and pride help reinforce behaviours that aid survival and reproduction. Negative emotional experiences such as disgust, fear, anxiety, and guilt help us avoid behaviors that decrease our survival and reproduction. Basic emotions: basic emotions are culturally universal and consist of subjective feeling, physiological change, and overt behavior. Emergence of basic emotions: emotional states of the newborn are limited to pleasure and distress, but infants experience all basic emotions by 8-9 months. Social smiles infant smiles when they see another person. Show frustration when they cannot achieve a goal. Stranger wariness infants become wary in the presence of an unfamiliar adult. Influenced by: familiarity with the environment, the stranger"s behavior, and infant"s ability to interpret stranger"s emotions: emotional states of the newborn are limited to pleasure and distress, but infants experience all basic emotions by 8-9 months.
