PSYC 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lateral Hypothalamus, Sleep Deprivation, Affective Neuroscience

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 389
• Professor: nichole sheerer

Document Summary

Chapter 3 textbook reading the motivated and emotional brain. Generates cravings, needs, desires, pleasure, and full range of emotions. Brain is the powerhouse and involves heavy participation of emotion and motivation. Cant be feel emotion or motivation without the brain center of motivation and emotion. Generated approach vs avoidance (cid:862)(cid:455)es i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:374)o i do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to(cid:863) app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h. 1 arousal-associated structure reticular formation: key role in arousal, processes incoming information and response appropriately. Psychostimulants are potent to repeated usage produces hypersensitivity to dopamine stimulation. Motivation only exists within the social contexts it surrounded by: environmental events in the social world act as the natural stimulators of the brains basic motivational processes (pleasure, anxiety, arousal, mood) Firing of neurotransmitters is ultimately what happens in the brain. Emotional processes (affective neuroscience) (affect emotional state) Antecedents to internal motives (external events and social contexts) Day to day events activate specific brain structures.