PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synaptic Pruning, Woolly Mammoth, Motivation
16 Mar 2016
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Immediate responses specific to environmental events or internal thoughts: ex) when someone tells you your outfit in on fleek, you feel happy. Interrupt or trigger change in thought or behavior. General state without an identifiable trigger: ex) a day when you are irritable but you font know why. Influences though and behavior, but not an interruption: affect-as-information theory- using your mood how you react and interact with people. What does it mean that emotions are adaptive: how you express you self had to be able to fit into certain situations, they prepare and guide our behavior. In what ways do emotions help us be adaptive: emotions serve cognitive thinking, different emotions help make decisions, guilt might strengthen interpersonal relationships. Reasoning and decision making are guided by the emotional evaluation of an actions consequences . Frontal lobe (decision making), not all damage to the brain is the same. Amygdala (detecting the emotional significance of fear)
