PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Medial Forebrain Bundle, Basal Forebrain, Basal Ganglia

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

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Instead, a multiple layered reward system helps us decide. Contractions in the stomach caused the balloon to change shape and were linked to hunger. When the balloon was inflated, the feelings of hunger stopped. This lead to the belief that stomach cues cause hunger: problems: the link between contractions and hunger was not concrete. They could both be caused by something like circulating hormones. Also, in addition to pressure sensors in the stomach, we also have neural sensors that signal the nutritive value of food. Describe the james-lange, cannon-bard and schachter two-factor theories of emotion: antonio damasio emotions are internal, automatic reactions. Current evidence supports this the most: in a study, people were given a drug that resulted in arousal and then placed in different situations. The individuals" reported emotional states were related to the situations. They did not know what the drug did: the facial-feedback hypothesis expressing a facial emotion leads to physiologically feeling that emotion.