PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Amygdala, Antidepressant, 18 Months
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Children communicate their feelings, needs and desires by means of a wide range of emotional expressions and thereby influence other people"s behaviour. Baby smiles mom smiles back; baby cries stranger backs away. Children"s earliest expressions- smiling, laughing, frowning, crying. Expressions that develop later- pride, shame, guilt, jealousy. Emotions are complex: involve subjective reaction to something in the environment; accompanied by some form of physical arousal; communicated to others by expression/action; pleasant or unpleasant. Primary emotions: fear, joy, disgust, surprise, sadness, interest, which emerge early in life and do not require introspection or self-reflection. Secondary/ self-conscious emotions: include pride, shame, guilt, jealously, embarrassment, and empathy; they emerge later in life and depend on a sense of self and an awareness of other people"s reactions. Being able to express and interpret emotions is as important as being able to solve an intellectual problem.
