PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Orbicularis Oculi Muscle, Konrad Lorenz, Mary Ainsworth
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Emotions in the first year of life: emotional development is social development, an important way of thinking about emotions is that there is a small set of primary emotions. Tomkins proposed that each emotion comes as an innate package with its own neural program. For all these conditions 4-5 month old babies increased their arm movements and showed anger expressions. Dynamic systems: although distinct emotions may be recognizable later in life, such expressions may not appear fully formed at first so that sometimes just partial expressions occur, and sometimes expressions seem inappropriate. In young infants negative expressions occur but at different intensities. At high intensity the expression is distress-pain, at lower intensities it is anger and at very low waning intensity is sadness. When making negative expressions infants often contract their orbicularis oculi muscles and close their eyes: emotions develop as dynamic self organizing systems. The theory of dynamic systems is related to chaos theory.
