PSY210H1 Study Guide - Mary Main, Lowkey, Metacognition
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Overview: functions of emotions, development of emotional expression, understanding & responding to the emotions of others, temperament & development, development of attachment, attachment, parental employment & childcare, functions of emotions. Emotion: is a rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation, which prepares you for action: how personally significant is the situation? action. An emotion then, expresses your readiness to establish, maintain, or change your relation to the environment on a matter of importance to you. Functionalist approach to emotion: emphasizes that the broad function of emotions is to energize behaviour aimed at attaining personal goals: emotions & cognitive processing. Emotions can also powerfully affect memory. (fearful events = more anxiety = remembered better) The relationship between emotion and cognition is bidirectional. Children & string pulling for happy stimuli stimuli turned off after a while children"s emotions changed some angry, some sad.
