PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Neuroscience, Observational Error, Organic Chemistry
9 Mar 2020
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Cognitive affective mediating units: encodings or construal, expectancies and beliefs, affects. Including physiological response: goals and values, desirable and undesirable outcomes and affective states; goals, values, life projects, competencies and self-regulatory plans. Ted talk clip by daniel wolpert, cognitive neuroscientist: why do we and other animals have a brain? for one reason: to adaptable and complex moves. Movement is the only way you can go about. Everything is mediated through contraction of your muscles: sea squirts at some point, it implants on a rock. The first think it does when implanting on a rock forever, they eat their own brain. Because of the goals that we have, whether they are grand like getting a nobel prize or mundane like going to the gym. Predicting motivation: need [strength, how hungry am i, incentive value of goal object, food (celery stick vs. steak, how valued that object is.
