PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parachuting, Homeostasis, Learned Helplessness
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Picture shows two different face expressions while skydiving. When we have an extreme emotion, the body tries to suppress it and fight to calm your body make you feel the opposite of fear joy. Once the parachute opens, the fear immediately fades out and the joy remains. When the person arrives the ground they feel almost like ecstasy. Basic needs that push us to behave food and water. Set point there is an optimal amount in your system where you either feel hunger or full. Watches the level of hunger if the level of hunger is too low it sends message to. Correctional mechanism (regulatory behaviours) leads yourself to look for food. Negative feedback tells your body that you had enough food makes you stop. Refers to people trying to reduce drives you are hungry and your drive to decrease it. The point on middle optimum level athletes try to achieve in order for best performance.
