PSY331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Validity, Coevolution, Functional Analysis

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28 Mar 2018
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Emotions enabled adaptive responses to threats to survival and to enable people to form relationships critical to passing on genes: passing on your genes is the marker of success. 3) principle 1: emotions serve functions: and they are adaptive to help us pass on genes. 4) principle 2: emotions are universal if they help us survive as humans, then they should be found universally. Baby-like cues if you think these babies are cute you will try to take care of them, this accounts for baby"s successful survival. Evolutionary approach: emotions evolutionarily evolved, help us survive, focused on expression purposed of not just emotions, but the expressions to other people. 3) nervous discharge: expressions in some cases can just be a discharge that is coming from energy in the nervous system (like blushing) Not all emotional expressions are innate, some are learned ex: kissing learned though culture as a form of showing affection by kissing.

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