PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Natural Kind, Mental Event, Emergence
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Constructionist approaches to emotion have existed since the time of william james. Factors that have traditionally considered as non-emotional such as concepts and language play a central role in making an intense of emotion what it is. Expressions of the emotions in man and animals . Emotion causes stereotypic bodily expressions: james. Modern approach to emotion: the basic emotion approach: Emotion are either discussed as complex reflexes that are automatically triggered by objects and events in the world: the appraisal approach: The first one arnold said: similar to the basic emotion models. For each emotion, there is a distinct pattern that remains more or less constant and is recognized and characteristic for that emotion. Appraisals has the power to diagnose objects or situations as personally relevant and can trigger the emotions that pre-exist within the individual. Together the basic emotion and appraisal-as-cause models of emotion is called the natural kind view or the modal model of emotion.
