PSY311H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parenting, Electrodermal Activity, Adrenal Cortex
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Emotions have several components: feelings: positive or negative in character, physiological correlates: changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response, brain wave activity etc, cognitions: elicit or accompany feelings and physiological changes, goals: desire to take actions. Two theories of emotional development: discrete emotions theory. Specific emotions are biologically programmed, accompanied by distinct sets of bodily and facial cues, and discriminable from early in life. Argue that many basic human emotions are inborn products of our evolutionary history. Each discrete emotion is accompanied by a particular set of facial and bodily reactions and is apparent very early in life: functionalist perspective. Believe that newborns and young infants do not display discrete emotions. Major purpose of an emotion is to establish, maintain, or change one"s relationship with the environment to accomplish a goal. Successful adaptation to their environments often requires children to control their emotions rather than expressing them freely.
