PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Amygdala, Brainstem, Social Emotions
Lecture 13
Thursday, May 25, 2017
1:36 PM
Emotion & Motivation
Development
• THEORIES of cognitive development
o Piaget - assimilation and accommodation - 4 stages
o Vigotsky - scaffolding and zone of proximal development
o Different social vs physical, gradual vs stages, specific vs general, guided vs free
learning
• Erikson's model of identity (8 crises)
• Kohlberger's theory of moral reasoning (3 stages)
Personality
• Biological perspective
• Psychoanalytical approach
• Behavioural approach
• Socio-cognitive approach
• Humanistic approach
• Trait perspective
o Inductive approach
• Factor analysis - analyze patterns of correlation to extract factors that
underlie the correlations
• Cost and McCrae's NEO PI-R facets
o O C E A N
• It’s a cotiuu
• Openness vs closeness
• Extrovert vs. introvert
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory MMPI
o Empirically derived test
o Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests
o Originally developed to identify emotional disorders
Does personality change over time?
• Over time personality becomes very stable
• Online personality
Emotion
Emotion vs Reason
• What do you think is most needed for effective and rational decision-making?
o Factual info, mental flexibility, emotional responses
Somatic Marker Hypothesis
• Experiences, events etc. create physical responses that are used as somatic markers to
classify things as good bad or indifferent and determine how we act
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Personality: biological perspective, psychoanalytical approach, behavioural approach, humanistic approach, trait perspective. Factor analysis - analyze patterns of correlation to extract factors that underlie the correlations: cost and mccrae"s neo pi-r facets, o c e a n. It"s a co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uu(cid:373: openness vs closeness, extrovert vs. introvert, minnesota multiphasic personality inventory mmpi, empirically derived test, most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests, originally developed to identify emotional disorders. Does personality change over time: over time personality becomes very stable, online personality. Emotion vs reason: what do you think is most needed for effective and rational decision-making, factual info, mental flexibility, emotional responses. Somatic marker hypothesis: experiences, events etc. create physical responses that are used as somatic markers to classify things as good bad or indifferent and determine how we act. Social referencing is important but don"t tell us and why, and how important the mother is versus someone else: this isn"t included in the experiment.
