PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mind Control, Neocortex, Brainstem
23 Mar 2016
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Lecture 12: feelings subjecive experience, moods difuse, long lasing, aitudes afecively coloured beliefs, afecive style stable disposiions, temperament afecive styles that have early onset and are possibly geneic. Emoion: emoions are states not traits an emoion is a relaively brief episode of coordinated brain, autonomic an behavioural changes that facilitate a response to an internal event of signiicance to the organism. Brain acivaion of neural circuits and neural transmiters. Autonomic automaic visceral responses, thorax and abdomen. Behavioural impulse to act, preparedness to act, acing (4 fs ight, light, feed, f*ck) Response to an event, internal or external (from evoluionary pov response to a kind of event that impacts itness) In emoion, simulus and response are decoupled there is a latency between onset of emoion and acion: the fear circuit again. Emoions emerged because they were beter able to solve adapive problems in ancestral environments: a step towards oline cogniion. Darwin was interested in the expression of emoion, not emoions themselves.
