PSY353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Shy People, Psychopathology
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Psy353 lecture 8 notes: motivation and emotion (temperament and affect) Present as early as 1 month of age and can be stable throughout life. Infant temperament: associated with extra-parental care (outside the family unit) environmental influences, biological predisposition shapes everything and moves things forward. Early reaction to novelty: exposing babies to new sounds, toys and people. Temperament and affect in adults: extroversion is associated with positive affect interoversion is associated with negative affect temperamental is correlated to how we respond to certain situations. Neural correlates: eeg: what your cortex is doing at any given moment frontal asymmetry basis of temperament the degree of asymmetry between left and right hemisphere which is more dominant. Adults: yes, these results from children are consistent in adults as well left bias positive affect right sided bias negative priming/affect taking adults and showing them emotionally inducing stimuli used eeg.
