PSYC 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Natural Kind, Chlordiazepoxide, Sertraline
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Move from a physiological to an ecological level of analysis. Physiological level: specific neurochemical systems underlying a cocktail. Ecological level:adaptive social behavior in the natural habitat: facial. Emotion displays function at the ecological level: eg. primary affects. Fear affect: a cocktail or symphony of feelings and desires. We are learning the recipes for the cocktail and the score of the symphony. Emotion display and communication of subjectively experienced feelings and desires displays, vocalizations, pheremones, etc. (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust. Emotion is a natural kind on both physiological and ecological levels. Emotion is defined as a readout of motivational potential. Primes are natural kinds of associates with neurochemical systems in the brain. Motivation: potential built into a system of behavior control. Analogous to the relationship of energy and matter. Motivation is a potential that is manifested in emotion. Motivation and emotion are 2 sides of the same coin.
