Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Bowlby, Evolutionary Medicine, Cortisol

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Week 10 chapter 10 - emotional development. Rapid appraisal of personal significance of situations. Expresses your readiness to establish, maintain or change your relation to the environment on a matter of importance to you. Functionalist approach the broad function of emotions to energize behaviour aimed at attaining personal goals. In turn, how we think, relate to other people, and our health has an impact on our emotions) Health: emotional stress influences cognitive and physical growth (psychosocial dwarfism, stressed out baby will not grow as well mentally or physically, stress elevates heart rate and blood pressure, depresses immune response, body working harder. Basic emotions -a re universal in humans and other primates and are theorized to have a long evolutionary history of promoting survival: happiness. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts ea(cid:396)liest e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s a(cid:396)e (cid:862)att(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to pleasa(cid:374)t sti(cid:373)uli(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:449)ithd(cid:396)a(cid:449)al f(cid:396)o(cid:373) u(cid:374)pleasa(cid:374)t sti(cid:373)uli(cid:863) do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e all (cid:1011), just ha(cid:448)e (cid:1006) Happiness: smile - from birth, social smile 6 to 10 weeks, laugh 3 to 4 months.