PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Heart Rate, Psy, Psych
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Identity and understand one"s own and other feelings. Being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustration. Regulate the expression of emotion in social interactions. The emergence of emotion in the early years and child. Why we have the emotions and what is the function of them. Emotion is the language of a person"s mental state of being, they are tied to the person"s internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. Modern research suggests that emotions are useful because they help people __ The fear is adaptive because it allows you to organize behavior around an important goal-avoiding danger. Joy, anger, surprise, interest, disgust, distress, sadness, and fear are all classified as basic emotions. Experienced by people worldwide and each consists of three elements. Smiling is the first clear sign of happiness that infants express. Young infants smile from their earliest days, but the meaning of their smiles appears to change with age.