PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fetus, Organizations Of The Dune Universe, Antonio Damasio
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Social construction feeds to the person"s experience of what is happening and it results us to feel it physically. Our physical environments affect our psychological thinking/consciousness and how we feel. There is a functional dissociation between parts of the pfc: This reflects a functional relationship between thinking and feeling. Our feelings influence even our presumed rational thinking processes: Antonio damasio: we are not thinking machines that feel; rather we are feeling machines that think. Sensory input autonomic arousal pfc (ventral-medial part) This creates a non-conscious bias that facilitates cognitive processing, in a certain direction (e. g. , danger, skepticism) Therefore, emotional and subtle physiological reactions may be a key part of. Chose advantageously even before they realized which strategy was best. Developed anticipatory scr even before they figured out the strategy. Danger signal shifts behaviour i. e. behaviour spike when reaching for the bad deck. Chose disadvantageously even when they knew correct strategy!
