PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phineas Gage, Prefrontal Cortex, Little Albert Experiment

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Emotions in uence us in powerful psychological ways and are under-represented. To some extent, emotion is another enemy of rational thought and rational thought"s ability to guide behaviour. Linked to motivation because what motivates us usually tends to move us emotionally as well. Motivation plays a key role since it helps bring the rational thought over emotions and acts as a motor to move us it"s the reason we do things. 3 aspects of emotion: behaviour, autonomic (parasympathetic - relaxing, sympathetic. Short-term survival, ght or ight), hormonal (kicks in sympathetic system, hormones are the neurotransmitters) John b. watson and little albert experiment: he associated white objects with a loud metallic sound (which scared him) and after some trials, white and fuzzy objects made little albert scared (classical conditioning) We can learn to fear things e. g. watching a movie, like jaws, and not going into an ocean because you feel like you"ll be attacked.