PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Emotion Classification
26 Mar 2013
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Physiological components: changes in respiration, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration. Expressive components: smiles, grimaces, cries, and other facial expressions. Experiential components: subjective feelings and cognitive judgments, produced in response to events: Initiate, maintain, or terminate interactions with others. Universal facial expression (ekman: basic emotion are interpreted similarly across cultures, children typically mix up anger vs. disgust and fear vs. surprise. Infant emotion expression (izard: basic emotions are expressed similarly in infants across cultures, evidence for innateness, process of internal sensory feedback from making an expression that is adaptive. Cognitive processes act as mediators, or mental events that bridge the gap between environmental stimuli and the response an individual expresses. Children learn what emotions should be displayed in which circumstances. Children learn how to manage emotions (when to inhibit certain emotions). Children are directed how to label and interpret emotions. Emotions as socially embedded processes (campos & saarni):
