Post by aria on Nov 3, 2017 19:54:58 GMT
List of primary emotions (fear, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, happiness)
1. Fear
ECS: Heights
I think fear is definitely innate on the grounds that many people (of which I have personally experienced this) have fears of things that they have never encountered (irrational in a sense). For example, I asked a friend over the summer to do the CN Tower Edge walk (where you walk around the outside perimeter of the CN Tower sphere) and my friend's response was "no, I'm afraid of heights". However, my friend has never been anywhere remotely high to know that they have this fear of height. Yet despite not having any previous experiences with places of high altitude, the friend was persistent in not doing the edge walk due to their fear of heights
2. Anger
ECS: Parent taking away child's favourite toy
I think anger is also innate (definitely was useful during evolutionary periods). Take for example, a mother (for the very first time) taking away her son's favourite toy. The little child will for sure be angry at the fact that their favourite toy just got taken away from them. However, if this is the very first time this has happened, and if the child shows visible signs of frustration/anger, how did the child exhibit such behaviours if this has never happened before?
3. Surprise
ECS: friends throwing you a surprise/unexpected birthday party
I definitely think surprise is something we associate things with (i.e. it's learned). From parents playing "peek-a-boo" to children when they are just infants, to having unexpected birthday parties, the behaviour that we associate with surprise ('shocked faces, mouth/jaw open, eye-brows raised up momentarily, etc.) is learned through various events and associating those events with particular facial expressions and displaying certain behaviours.
1. Fear
ECS: Heights
I think fear is definitely innate on the grounds that many people (of which I have personally experienced this) have fears of things that they have never encountered (irrational in a sense). For example, I asked a friend over the summer to do the CN Tower Edge walk (where you walk around the outside perimeter of the CN Tower sphere) and my friend's response was "no, I'm afraid of heights". However, my friend has never been anywhere remotely high to know that they have this fear of height. Yet despite not having any previous experiences with places of high altitude, the friend was persistent in not doing the edge walk due to their fear of heights
2. Anger
ECS: Parent taking away child's favourite toy
I think anger is also innate (definitely was useful during evolutionary periods). Take for example, a mother (for the very first time) taking away her son's favourite toy. The little child will for sure be angry at the fact that their favourite toy just got taken away from them. However, if this is the very first time this has happened, and if the child shows visible signs of frustration/anger, how did the child exhibit such behaviours if this has never happened before?
3. Surprise
ECS: friends throwing you a surprise/unexpected birthday party
I definitely think surprise is something we associate things with (i.e. it's learned). From parents playing "peek-a-boo" to children when they are just infants, to having unexpected birthday parties, the behaviour that we associate with surprise ('shocked faces, mouth/jaw open, eye-brows raised up momentarily, etc.) is learned through various events and associating those events with particular facial expressions and displaying certain behaviours.