PSYC 2740 Chapter 13: PSYCH 2740 CHAPTER 13 NOTES

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

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They have distinctive feelings or affects associated with them. They are accompanied with bodily changes such as the nervous system, breathing, heart rate, muscle tension blood chemistry and facia; and body expressions. Darwin proposed a functional analysis of emotions and expressions that uses on the. Why he recognized that evolution in natural selection apple not only to anatomic structures but also to the mind. indicating that the expressions communicate with one another about what is going to happen. Categorical vs. dimensional approach to emotion categorical: some think that a small number of primary and distinct emotions (anger, joy, anxiety and sadness). they search for the fundamental factors that underlie the many variations. Primary emotions are thought to be irreducible set of emotions in which combinations result in the huge variety of experienced emotions. Ekman requires that a primary emotion have a distinct facial expression that is recognizable across cultures.