PSYC 4600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Electrodermal Activity, Triune Brain, Limbic System

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4600
• Professor: Maria Giammarco

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Can measure emotions physiologically via: skin conductance response (scr: even if it is an unpleasant emotion, the response will be greater than neutral. Basic emotions (ekman faces): anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, fear, surprise. Fear & disgust: to avoid predation and to avoid poisonous food. Different physiological responses to see how people respond differently to fear and disgust. Disgust = eyes neutral the opposite face = fear. Fear = eyes wide open the opposite face = disgust. When you are fearful, you are moving your eyes around a lot and they are wide (high field of. Whe(cid:374) (cid:455)ou are disgusted, (cid:455)our e(cid:455)es do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)o(cid:448)e arou(cid:374)d that (cid:373)uch a(cid:374)d the(cid:455) are (cid:374)arro(cid:449) (lo(cid:449) vision) field of vision) Fear = bigger nostrils, taking in more oxygen. Disgust = less (cid:374)ostrils, do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to s(cid:373)ell this gross. Emotions come first and direct behaviour: there is a deterministic relationship between bodily reactions and emotions.