Emotions+S-1

= Assumption #1: You have read the Jacaranda text - Emotions chapter = = EMOTIONS - THE BIG SIX //what are they? // =

// ASSIGNMENT: PowerPoint; with extensive notes area documentation // //To Help with multimedia report// ...Road Rage - this should help in undertstanding the biological and psychological bases for aggression: Ensure the 4 levels of explanation (Biological, Basic Process, Person, and Sociocultural ... levels) are addressed.

Review Emotions on the [|McGill University] site Ther are various levels and links to explore at this site

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A Timeline of the advances in thought and theory about emotion - Perhaps you could scribe the key milestones to your notebook

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Plutchik's (1980) psychoevolutionary theory of basic emotions has ten postulates.
 * 1) The concept of emotion is applicable to all evolutionary levels and applies to animals as well as to humans.
 * 2) Emotions have an evolutionary history and have evolved various forms of expression in different species.
 * 3) Emotions served an adaptive role in helping organisms deal with key survival issues posed by the environment.
 * 4) Despite different forms of expression of emotions in different species, there are certain common elements, or prototype patterns, that can be identified.
 * 5) There is a small number of basic, primary, or prototype emotions.
 * 6) All other emotions are mixed or derivative states; that is, they occur as combinations, mixtures, or compounds of the primary emotions.
 * 7) Primary emotions are hypothethical constructs or idealized states whose properties and characteristics can only be inferred from various kinds of evidence.
 * 8) Primary emotions can be conceptualized in terms of pairs of polar opposites.
 * 9) All emotions vary in their degree of similarity to one another.
 * 10) Each emotion can exist in varying degrees of intensity or levels of arousal.

Plutchik's theory has great heuristic quality and is also appealingly multidisciplinary Aknowledgenment to [|http://www.personalityresearch.org/basicemotions.html#table]