PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Facial Nerve, Basal Ganglia, Emotional Expression

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Le Boutillier, Janelle

Document Summary

Psyb64 chapter 14: emotion, reward, aggression, and stress. Has 2 major components: physical sensation ex. rapid heartbeat, conscious, subjective experience or feeling ex. Emotions display valence (positive or negative quality) Emotions enhance survival by helping us communicate; nonverbal communication such as facial expression and body language. Biological influences on emotional expression: major emotional expressions: anger, sadness, happiness, fear, disgust, surprise, contempt and embarrassment. Infants who are blind from birth show a progression in development of social smiling that is similar to that of sighted infants even though they cannot observe and learn. Infants raised in several diverse cultures showed similar age -related emotional responses to being separated from their mothers: rhesus monkeys raised in isolation still showed fear of pictures of other monkeys engaged in threatening behaviors. Environmental influences on emotion: people make more intense facial expression in response to odors when in a group as opposed to when they are alone.