Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autonomic Nervous System, Adrenal Medulla, Phototaxis
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An act intended to foster a false belief in another. Ekman & friesen (1974: notion of leakage. Nonverbal cues that escape attempts to conceal. Some people better than others: kraut & poe (1980) customs officials. Leach et al. (2008) police and customs officers with children. Control mechanisms positive or negative feedback: orienting responses or taxes, overall musculature response toward (positive) or away from (negative) a stimulus, positive phototaxis in moth, homeostatic mechanisms, maintaining a constant state. Central and peripheral > autonomic and skeletal > sympathetic and parasympathetic. Cannon(1945)- vegetative and activating function s: emergency reaction. Activation of sns stimulation of adrenal medulla (endocrine) epinephrine. Heart rate and breathing increase; break down glucose; ne and da. Kahneman (2011: more dilation for difficult math, reflects cognitive load, dilation just before a decision is made. Importance of: stimulus intensity, avoid intense, stimulus novelty, prefer the familiar. Berlyne"s set point: relation between pleasure and arousal. Moderate increase/decreases from personalized level of arousal are pleasurable.