PSYC 10213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Medicine, Motor Program, Quinine
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Angry emotional state; logically weak or strong arguments, if made angry and given same arguments, the emotion helps you focus and evaluate the quality of the argument. Discrete emotions theory predicts/describes emotions as reflexes, emotional response is to feel first, think later. Shared history with animals in adaptive functions. Ekman (1994) pi(cid:272)k sad i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual (cid:449)ho"s (cid:373)other just died. Happiness, sadness, angry, fear, surprise, and disgust. Alarm, guilt, shame, love, hatred, joy, and many others. Adaptive problem start (cid:449)ith adapti(cid:448)e pro(cid:271)le(cid:373), (cid:449)hy are(cid:374)"t hu(cid:373)ans/animals surviving wrong. Evolved response to adaptive problem what is evolved response to problem; what we label as the emotion. Change in behavior changes in behavior associated with evolved response; what does emotion actually look like. Coordinated set of reactions like other emotions. Stick out tongue, turn head, and close eyes. Spoiled food -> disgust -> avoid bacteria. Sweet (sucrose), water, sour (citric), bitter (quinine) Video: babies eating lemons for first time.
