PSYC 4220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Development, Conflicting Emotions, 18 Months

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4220
• Professor: J.Hakim- Larson

Document Summary

Emotions needed to be kept under control through reasoning. Some people were better at reasoning and logic than others (history: men were better than women). Bought slavery because people that did not have reasoning had to be controlled by someone more capable (more reasoning). Reason he was interested in these is because it had to do with the concept of ethics. (ethics are how do you live a good life?) Ethics involves how you live a good life. Is there a time which you"re right to be angry and when is it okay to have pride and when it is not okay. He was the concept of moderation in all things. Having the right emotion at the right time at the right amount. Classes of emotion: primary darwinian emotions (across cultures and mammals, social emotions (empathy, pride, pity, shame, background emotions (organization of arousal and affect into patterns called surging, fading, accelerating, exploding, synchrony and play, positive vs.