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Reflection essay - 600 words. Please read the instruction file and lecture slides.Psychology 132: Psychology and Culture Book: Matsumoto, D., & Juang, L. (2016). Culture and Psychology (Sixth ed.). Nelson Education. This reflection essay should be 600 words and fully address the questions. Please make sure your paragraphs are complete (4-5 sentences) and grammar/punctuation has been checked.  Essays have paragraphs!  After reading/hearing the power point presentation “EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT” (File attached), answer the following questions: 1. What emotions are hard-wired in the stem of the brain?  How might these emotions be tied with theories related to Evolutionary Psychology? 2.  Psychologist believe emotions become active for all humans around the same time.  What accounts for emotional expression?  From Chp 9 what research may prove that we there is universal perception of emotions?  What are the studies that find facial recognition may be universal?  Might it be tied to genetic encoding?  3. What have you noticed about the expression of emotions in your family?  Is your expression always aligned with your familys?   4. How might emotion antecedents be related to Emotional Intelligence? Of the 4 areas of Emotional Intelligence, which do you think you are strong in and why?  Which area(s) do you believe you need to develop more skill in? 5. What do universal processes allow us to to do in different social, work and life situations?Diana Creel Elarde EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 9 I want to thank you for coming * Two emotions we come with Psychologist believe in the top of our brain stem, the emotions of grief and panic exist once we are born We all start out with the same emotions! 1.You get to work, happy settle in after your first meeting you start to feel anxious, maybe even negative ---what happened to change your mood? 2. Changes are you have picked up an emotional state from one of your co-workers which has signaled something is wrong – like the good little warning beckon we are – we too feel and send out that message. 3. Are there people who feel more sad or negative during the day 4. Simply enough are you breathing? If you were to really listen in meeting you will be able to identify those people who are holding their breath or shallow breathing – Sound like this - a sudden quiet intake of breath - or people who seem almost breathless when they are speaking to you ----- You have to remember this is a universal sign of danger for humans – and if you are not aware you too will minic their breathing and feel anxious * Development of our emotions 1. Hard wired emotions in the limbic brain – Panic and grief – shared by all mammals. 2. 6 months of age we begin to develop seven other emotions such as joy, disgust, fear, surprise, anger, sadness, worry - true of all humans 3. Amygdala recorder – Calm Family, dramatic, abusive – can be self protective. 4. Development of frontal lobes develop what we call our higher thought. Our reasoning portion of the brain will become to interact with our emotions – Verifying and acknowledging each other. 5. Why play becomes important, especially as we step out of our own family environment - expands our understanding of how we express our emotions. 6. Default emotional expression will be the patterns we establish early - as we get older We can change those patterns by making a conscious decision to change. We step out of our immediate family environment we begin to adjust our emotional reactions – What’s proper behavior in our house, may not be in school, or at our friend;s house Expression in learned early There are the theories * The frontal lobe (the higher mind), is the most evolved part of the brain - capable of advanced reasoning. And capable of advanced emotional evaluation and emotional reflection, diversity, repression * The primitive limbic brain helped early man survive Awareness of threats to survival Our basic emotions are hard-wired into the limbic brain - panic and grief * Our first response – look for what threatens us! We often look for the negative because that’s how we learned to survive The primitive brain likes patterns 80\% of the time our brain is looking for what threatens us. Like primitive man walking through the forest finding another human – decision1 Psychology and Culture Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Name Institution Name Date Psychology and Culture According to psychologists, once we are born, emotions, grief, and panic are hardwired in the limbic section of the brain. The emotions are also present in all mammals making them innate and universal (Matsumoto & Juang, 2016). Evolutionary Psychology theorizes that emotions have a fundamental role in behavior which is necessary for environmental adaptation. Therefore, grief and panic are viewed as adaptive responses to changes in environment settings. In other words, it supports awareness of threats in order to improve prospects for survival. For example, people experience panic attack when stuck in tiny gap between rocks while hiking is due to changes in the environment invoking fear which in turn activates our fight or flight response. Besides, an emotional expression is an action that communicates the current emotional state which could be influenced by various factors such as self-awareness, physical health or environment. In fact, the universal perception of emotions is based on the study of Charles Darwin. Based on his research, he identified that the facial expression of emotion is universal (Matsumoto & Juang, 2016). Furthermore, his research continued to identify that facial expressions do not vary based on culture. Therefore, they cannot be learned. Nevertheless, recognizing facial expressions of emotions have a key role in human cognition which support the notion of universal perception of emotions. Also, facial recognition studies find facial is cognition as universal as it is effortlessly achieved among humans. Thus, social conditioning has a significant impact on how people view faces. It is also tied to genetic encoding as it is influenced and intercorrelated by genes. From my personal perspective, my family members demonstrate similar emotional expression under ideal conditions. Additionally, it is possible to be affected by the emotions of other family members that associate with the level of attachment and correlation with the distressing issue. Thus, the aligning of expression with family members is frequent but not always. For example, when my parents are happy, the emotion is shared among the other family members inducing the emotion of joy and happiness. However, if my adolescent sister is experiencing mood swings which alter their emotions, the other family members would barely align their emotions with her. Hence, the support for the notion of emotions are being associated most of the time. While emotion antecedents are defined as events, situational triggers, or solicitation of emotions, emotional intelligence refers to the capability to control, be aware of, and express our emotions. They are related as emotion antecedents are used to determine emotional control. Of the four areas of emotional intelligence, I believe I am strong in social awareness as I always respect everyone’s perspective, as