PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Incentive Salience, Alexithymia, Prefrontal Cortex
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Appraisal theorist came around and said this process is way more complex. Many things feed into the system of what an emotion is. We have this old part of the brain, the limbic system, amygdala region that we share with almost all other non-human species. Human brain is fascinating that is the prefrontal cortex, for thinking etc. Those first instincts are actually vital for human survival and why we are still here today and very important and don"t want to just override them, times they are adaptive and useful. Emotions are very much intertwined with things we are trying to achieve, things we are trying to avoid, reward and punishment. With motivational goal states, and that"s where contemporary appraisal models is coming from. Different goals then different emotional experiences even though same physiological experience. No linear causal relationship in emotional experience.
