Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Neural Development, Jean Piaget, Frontal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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This week: issues in development, neural development, visual development. James-lange theory emotion provoking event perception arousal emotion *emotion is driven by arousal understand where arousal is for each theory! Schachter"s theory do not need arousal to feel emotion, perception of danger may have it. Lateralization right hemisphere in general plays a greater role than the left hemisphere, also dependent on gender. Gender impact males have more activity in the right hemisphere, women have more activity in the left hemisphere. Left frontal love more involved with positive emotions, right in negative. More activity in left when watching happy films, more in right for sad/disgusting films. Nature = maturation (nature determines the range) Nurture = learning (nurture choose the alternatives) Qualitative difference eg. caterpillar goes into cocoon and then it changes to a. Smooth, continual change their abilities and what they look like. Quantitative difference there is a degree or amount of difference.