PSYB65H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - Detailed Textbook Notes
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Emotions often localized emotions to various internal organs such as the liver & heart. Plato: head reason, liver desire, and heart-anger. Aristotle distinction between emotions & passions; emotion occurred when intellect is engaged. Produce: behaviours (both internal & external, motor responses, basic emotional states and are not learned verbal statements, facial expressions, and thoughts related to experiences. Ekman"s criteria for an emotional state to be basic: distinctive facial expression, distinctive physiological state. Immediate onset of facial expression & physiological state only lasting for breif duration: distinctive eliciting stimuli, automatic appraisal of eliciting stimuli (snake) Similar expressions of emotional states in the related primates: but, there is the problem of attributing emotions to non-linguistic individuals because they can"t confirm what they"re feeling. Still some controversy as to which emotions fall under basic . Emotions that we feel nowadays are somehow related to what was important in our evolutionary past.
