PSYC3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Psychopathy
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Children with autism have difficulties using gaze information to predict behaviour or infer desire- charles darwin believed emotions are an innate and automatic response. Reinforcer- a stimulus that increases or decreases a particular pattern of behaviour. Social referencing- the emotional response of another person may lead to avoidance or interaction with a previously neutral stimulus. Conditioned taste aversion- a highly durable avoidance of food that has previously been associated with sickness. Skin conductance response- changes in electrical conductivity on a persons skin triggered by certain stimuli. James lange theory of emotion- the self perception of bodily changes produces emotional experience- e. g. one cries because one is sad- changes in bodily state precede the emotional experience. Somatic markers- links between previous situations store throughout the cortex and the feeling for those situations stored in regions of the brain dedicated to emotion and the representation of the body.
