Psychology 3228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Margaret Mead, Fear Conditioning, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228
• Professor: Caroline Strang

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Psych 3228 lecture 8 emotion, competition, violence and individual differences. Bc we have a motivation to do so behaviour is organized via: endogenous and exogenous biological rhythms. Exogenous: your surroundings e. g. , sun rising motivates you to wake up: motivational factors. Emotion affective state of an organism a component of motivational systems. Emotion cannot be considered separately from motivation: emotions are part of motivational systems but motivation does not necessarily require affective component (autonomic responses, emotional component of a motivational response may be facultative (e. g. breathing) Theory of emotions: william james argued that internal state generated by viscera. Gut feelings" monitored by mind to lead to change in internal state clearly viscera not required to experience emotion (e. g. , patients with paralysis: however, act of forming expressions can modify affect. Sssm: environment determines emotions: behaviourists rejected emotion as a causal factor for behaviour, emotions are the result of a stimulus-response association forming, e. g. conditioned fear response.