PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Tachycardia, Hypothalamus, Amygdala
25 Apr 2016
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A biologically-based response to a situation that is personally relevant. A subjective feeling that includes an interpretation (cognitive) and an outward expression or behavior. Emotion: immediate responses to a specific object or situation. Darwin believed that basic emotional expressions are innate. Evidence: individuals who are congenitally blind make similar facial expressions as sighted individuals, babies make a broad array of expressions soon after they are born. Darwin"s theory of the evolution of emotional expression: expressions of emotions evolved from behaviors that indicate what an animal is likely to do next (a form of communication) If signals provided by such behaviors benefit the animal that displays them, they will evolve (natural selection of emotions: opposite messages are often signaled by opposite movement and postures. This is referred to as the principle of antithesis. Secondary emotions (learned): embarrassment, jealousy, guilt, shame, pride. Common sense view: stimulus (bear); fear; ans activation. My heart is pounding because i feel afraid? .
