Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Anna Freud, Sensory System, Neural Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

They are prepared for life on the first day of birth. If an individual was completely unable to experience arousal, but still reported an experience of emotion, this would argue strongly against which theory of emotion: james-lange (arousal right before emotion, if no arousal, then no experience no emotion. Arousal is essential for emotion. : schacter"s two factor theory, lazarus" cognitive appraisal, common sense theory, none of these. Development=change in abilities over time (there is time trend in there, there is a temporal trend) Nature determines the range (genetically coded, tall or short) Nurture chooses the alternatives (nourishment, and environment. ) Discontinuous stages are separated by rapid growth: stage 1, 2 3 etc Butterfly starts with caterpillar and stage 2 is caterpillar with wings then stage 3 is butterfly. They all look the same, no big difference. Growing into a larger, better example of an species.