01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hemiparesis, Homeostasis, Thought Experiment

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

The amygdala is a complex structure adjacent to the hippocampus, the amygdala is involved in processing emotions and fear-learning. It links areas of the cortex that process higher cognitive information with hypothalamic and brainstem systems that control lower metabolic responses. This allows the amygdala to coordinate the physiological response based on cognitive information - the most well-known example being the fight-or-flight response. The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics . The general form of the problem is this: you see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that controls a switch side track and five people on the main track will be saved. However, there is a single person lying on the side track. If you pull the lever, the trolley will be redirected onto a. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill five people on the main track.