PSYC18H3 Chapter 8: PSYC18 Chapter 8 notes
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Understanding the development of emotions includes understanding how biologically based expressions enable infant and parent to communicate, and how such expressions take on the forms of culture and individuality. Important way of thinking about emotions is that there is a small set of primary emotions. Discrete emotions- tomkin proposes that each emotion comes as an innate package with its own neural program, emotional expressions are than visible signs of inner programs. When child first born, not much differentiation but as development process specific emotions are expressed in forms recognizable to others. Facial expression of digust present in infants in response to sour tastes but emotions other than disgust are hard to distinguish in the first few days of life. Babies can smile in the first few weeks but its not social, social smile emerge after the first month or two.