Lecture 14 Emotion Part 1

Question 1

Purpose for Emotions

Answer 1

Source of Adaptive but conflicting goals
Fear- Goal: Safety
Angry- Goal: Punishment, Disrespect
Sexual Desire- Goal: Spread genes
Love for Children- Goal: Protect children

Question 2

Concomitant of Emotion

Answer 2

Cognitive and behavioral goals
Attention
Physiological: fight or flight response
Facial Expressions

Question 3

Limbic System

Answer 3

Hypothalmus
Amygdala
Hypothalmus
- Many nuclei have different function
-Connected to pituitary gland
Ventral basal ganglia
Phylogenetically old- Four Fs but connected to new frontal lobe(planning, thinking)

Question 4

Darwin’s First Principle

Answer 4

Serviceable Habits

Useful habits that were reinforced and then inherited by offspring

Question 5

Darwin’s Second Principle

Answer 5

Antithesis
Opposite emotions have opposite phenotypes
Dog wagging is not useful, just opposite from erect tail seen in attacking stance

Question 6

Darwin’s Third Principle

Answer 6

Expressive Habits

Nervous System builds up and can only be relieved by certain habits

Question 7

Darwin Counter and Counter Counter

Answer 7

- Argue for cultural conditioning- babies smile only because reinforce
COUNTERCOUNTER
Many Phobias not conditioned
Universality of Fear Stimuli
monkeys fear snakes
infants fear strangers, separation
adults- snakes, spiders, heights social scrutiny
modern dangers not feared

Question 8

Digust

Answer 8

Evolutionary Adaptation to defend against biological pathogens

1. Eating contaminated food
2. Contact with infectious substances/people
   * List of substances that cause the most disgust also correlate with greatest disease risk*

Question 9

Disgust and taboos reinforce each other

Answer 9

Reasons for Taboos

• ecological factors
• optimal foraging theory, preference for large animals over smaller ones
• ethnic isolators

Question 10

Critique of Darwinian Theory

Answer 10

• Thought emotions were vestigial not evolutionary

- Believed in Lamarckian theory for emotions