PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Sexual Orientation, Brain Fingerprinting, Thalamus
23 Jan 2018
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Emotions: mental state of feeing associated with out evaluation of our experiences/motivated state marked by physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and mental experience. The fact that some emotional expressions emerge even without direct reinforcement. Each reaction we have that"s associated with a certain emotion helps to react to the emotion. Darwin was the first to point out the similarities between the emotional expressions of humans and many nonhuman animals (snarl of dogs is reminiscent of the sneer of humans) The fact that many mammals display similar emotional reactions during similar social behaviours, such as tickling and play, lends itself to parsimonious hypothesis: perhaps these reactions share the same evolutionary origins. Culture & emotion: people recognize and generate the same emotional expressions across cultures. Recognition: rival explanation states that people have all been exposed to. Western culture and emotions may vary in similarity.
