CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Autonomic Nervous System, Psycholinguistics, Amygdala

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience, and behavioural expression: usually emotion is distinguished from mood due its episodic nature. Sympathetic parasympathetic: parasympathetic -> controls your body in normal situations; when you"re in a situation when you need to regulate your response and bring it back to the baseline. Schachter and singer (1962: method, told injected with vitamin that helps with visual skills. Some are told that there"s going to be numbness in their hands and feet (no true effects of adrenaline), some accurately told, and others nothing at all. Dutton and aron (1974: method: woman asked men questions on capilano river suspension bridge or stable bridge just above water, results: on high swaying bridge men viewed woman as more attractive. James-lange correct: not all emotions have the same physiological response: cannon-bard correct: people are not 100% accurate at differentiating physiological responses, so some interpretation is required.